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Novelist chronicles Egypt’s rough revolutionary road

Alaa Al Aswany, the author of "The Yacoubian Building," has published a compendium of newspaper columns that trace the arc of Egypt’s recent political upheavals from the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 to the election of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last year.

Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany poses on February 12, 2014 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET        (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany poses on Feb. 12, 2014, in Paris. — JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images

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