Christopher Dickey Interviews Alaa Al-Aswany

Egypt's best-known contemporary novelist, Alaa Al-Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building, is also one of the country's most prominent political activists. Newsweek's Christopher Dickey caught up with him after curfew in one of Cairo's hotels.

Updated 04.24.17 4:32PM ET / Published 02.07.11 4:06PM ET

Egypt's best-known contemporary novelist, Alaa Al-Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building, is also one of the country's most prominent political activists. Newsweek's Christopher Dickey caught up with him after curfew in one of Cairo's hotels.