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  • Alaa al-Aswany

    …the collection Nīrān ṣadīqah (2004; Friendly Fire), which also contains some of his stories. In 1993 he began writing a monthly column for the newspaper Al-ʿArabī. Aswany, who wrote in Arabic, was a staunch believer in reading national literatures in their original languages, and he studied Spanish to read the…

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    …the collection Nīrān ṣadīqah (2004; Friendly Fire), which also contains some of his stories. In 1993 he began writing a monthly column for the newspaper Al-ʿArabī. Aswany, who wrote in Arabic, was a staunch believer in reading national literatures in their original languages, and he studied Spanish to read the…

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