The Automobile Club of Egypt

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alaa Al Aswany is the author of The Yacoubian Building, which was long-listed for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2006 and was the best-selling novel in the Arab world for over five years, as well as Chicago (named by Newsday as the best translated novel of 2006) and Friendly Fire. He has received many awards internationally, including the Bashrahil Award for the Arabic novel, the Kafavis Award from Greece and the Grinzane Cavour Award from Italy, and was recently named by The Times (London) as one of the best fifty authors to have been translated into English over the last fifty years.