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Video : Alaa Al Aswany on Riz Khan’s ‘One on One’

In fame, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV on 21 February 2011 tagged Abbas El Aswany, Alaa Al Aswany, Cairo, Chicago, egypt, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hosni Mobarak, Hosni Mubarak, Huffington Post, Husni Mubarak, Kefaya, Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, New Zealand, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, One on One, Riz Khan, The Yacoubian Building, TV, Victor Hugo, Video, Yacoubian Building, Youtube with no comments

In a 2009 episode of his show One on One, “the Oprah of Al Jazeera” (which is selling him short) Riz Khan spoke to the Arab world’s best-selling novelist Alaa Al Aswany. Avid readers of Al Aswany’s works will see some of the ideas about Egyptian society in Al Aswany’s novel in his answers to [...]