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The Yacoubian Building Alaa Al Aswany, Humphrey T. Davies
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

A diverse set of characters all trying to co-exist in the Yacoubian Building. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Watch online: The Yacoubian Building 2006 Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. The Yacoubian Building isn't this year's The Bestof Youth, but with one or two positive reviews from American critics wowed by the Egyptian film's scope. The Yacoubian Building was first published in 2002 but has probably lost none of its relevance even given recent events in Egypt. The film is centered on the lives of the people who work and live in the Yacoubian Building in downtown Cairo. The book is about the inhabitants of said building in Cairo and their various (mis)fortunes. Fiction - hardcover; Fourth Estate; 272 pages; 2007. Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies. The setting of this novel takes place in Egypt. At its height, it entertained the famous and powerful alike.