The Gulf Centre for Human Rights pays tribute to prominent Emirati human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq who died in a tragic car accident in the UK, and joins the growing calls for an investigation ...
Prominent Emirati rights activist, Alaa Al-Siddiq, 33, died in a car accident near London on Saturday. The UK-based human rights organization which she chaired, ALQST, announced her death in a ...
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The Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Al Aswany explains how one word in Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead showed him how literature can help us understand one another. The Automobile Club of ...
The Republic of False Truths. By Alaa Al Aswany. Translated by S.R. Fellowes. Faber; 464 pages; £16.99. To be published in America by Knopf in August; $28.95 IN “THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING” (2002), Alaa ...
Alaa Al Aswany, one of the most renowned novelists of the Arab world, almost gave up writing. After Egypt’s state publisher rejected his first two novels in the 1990s, he published them himself, ...