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🎓 Alaa al Aswany (geb. 1957) im Gespräch mit Christoph Burgmer . Der gelernte Zahnarzt und weltweit übersetzte ägyptische Schriftsteller Alaa al Aswany ist einer der Mitbegründer von "al Kifahi", einer Protestbewegung die 2011 zum Sturz des ägyptischen Diktators Hosny Mubarak maßgeblich beitrug. Die gescheiterte ägyptische Demokratiebewegung mündete in eine Militärdikdatur ägyptischer Offiziere. 2019 wurde Alla al Aswany wegen "Beleidigung des Staates" angeklagt und floh aus Ägypten. Er lebt und arbeitet seither in Paris und New York. /🎓 Alaa al Aswany (born 1957) in conversation with Christoph Burgmer . Alaa al Aswany, a qualified dentist and Egyptian writer whose works have been translated worldwide, is one of the co-founders of ‘al Kifahi’, a protest movement that played a key role in the overthrow of the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The failed Egyptian democracy movement led to a military dictatorship led by Egyptian officers. In 2019, Alaa al Aswany was charged with “insulting the state” and fled Egypt. He has since been living and working in Paris and New York. علاء الأسواني (مواليد 1957) في حوار مع كريستوف بورغمير. يعد علاء الأسواني، طبيب الأسنان المتخصص والكاتب المصري الذي تُرجمت أعماله إلى لغات عديدة حول العالم، أحد مؤسسي حركة «الكفاحي»، وهي حركة احتجاجية ساهمت بشكل حاسم في الإطاحة بالديكتاتور المصري حسني مبارك عام 2011. أدت الحركة الديمقراطية المصرية الفاشلة إلى قيام دكتاتورية عسكرية بقيادة ضباط مصريين. في عام 2019، وُجهت إلى علاء الأسواني تهمة «إهانة الدولة»، فهرب من مصر. ومنذ ذلك الحين، يعيش ويعمل في باريس ونيويورك. 📚 Veröffentlichungen u.a. / publications a.o. / منشورات، من بينها: - Alaa al Aswani: "Der Jakubijan-Bau." Lenos Verlag, Basel 2007. - Alaa al Aswani: "Die Republik der Träumer." Hanser Verlag München 2021 - Alaa al Aswani: "Die Bäume streifen durch Alexandria." Hanser Verlag, München 2025. #alaaalaswany #egypt #arabrevolution #muslimbrotherhood #tahrir Follow us & Subsribe to our newsletter Audio Archive Podcast - Go against the Grain is self financed. All podcasts are free of charge. Help us to keep Audio Archive Podcast free with a donation here. Thank you for your support.

Renowned Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany , author of the award winning The Yacoubian Building, discusses his experience during the Egyptian revolution and his book, The Republic of False Truths , which was released in English this year. “The Egyptians I lived with in Tahrir Square have nothing to do with the Egyptians I used to live with before the revolution," Aswany tells Gilles Kepel. "They are probably the same people, but something happened, and this something is great." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany about his latest novel which charts the country's social upheaval through the prism of Cairo's elite Automobile Club of Egypt. The foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson looks back at the Egyptian revolution as the crowds gathered in Tahrir Square in 2011. The political economist Tarek Osman explores how Islamism has spread through the Middle East, and what its future prospects mean for the region, while Professor Hugh Kennedy charts the rise of the Caliphate and how the so-called Islamic State uses the iconography of early Islam as propaganda.

Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany about his bestselling novel The Yacoubian Building. It was the Arab world’s number-one bestseller for five years running after it was published in 2002. The Yacoubian Building interweaves the stories of a group of diverse characters who live and work in downtown Cairo. A moving study of politics and power, sex and revenge - centred on the apartment building - the Yacoubian building, which still stands in Cairo today. The novel offers a compelling yet daringly scathing portrayal of modern Egypt since the Revolution of 1952.

Karine Mannerfelt har rest till Kairo för att träffa arabvärldens just nu mest berömda författare, Alaa al Aswany, vars roman Yacobians hus sålt i en halv miljon exemplar bara i Frankrike. Al Aswany tar emot vid ett marmorbord inne i sin tandläkarmottagning. Det är där han skriver sina romaner. Två eftermiddagar i veckan behandlar han patienter i mottagningen.-Litteratur och medicin är två sidor av samma sak. Jag kan inte leva av bara den ena, säger han.Samtalet i tandläkarmottagningen kretsar kring litteratur kontra verklighet, och al Aswany blir upprörd när det visar sig att Bibliotekets utsände har använt hans bok som en sorts turistguide till det nutida Egypten.Medverkar gör också författaren Bahaa Taher.

Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswany was born in 1957 and studied dentistry in Egypt and Chicago. In addition to fiction, he writes on literature, politics, and social issues. His second novel, The Yacoubian Building , an ironic take on modern Egyptian society, was a significant best seller in and outside of the Arabic world. Chicago , a novel set in the city of that name was published in January 2007. The English translation is due out in bookstores this Fall. We met at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal, and talk here about the contamination of literature by politics, compartmentalizing the two, achieving artistic value, Martin Amis and Islamism, the fallacy of Mark Steyn’s fear mongering, the novel as life on paper but more profound, significant, beautiful than the ‘real’ thing, the writer’s need to listen to the sound of the heart, the difference between writing and fabricating, and why his novels have enjoyed such world-wide success. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebibliofile.substack.com/subscribe