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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.

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