FRIENDLY FIRE, translated by Humphrey Davies

219pp., paperback, Reprint, London (2009) 2010

Short stories and a novella.

"Al Aswany distils his personal and general frustrations with Egypt's people and politics into powerful, punchy tales that are both uncommonly observant and deftly constructed ... His achievement in these stories is in making general complaints affecting, human and very personal." The Times

Egyptian dissident writer Alaa Al Aswany was born in 1957 in Cairo, where he still lives and practices as a dentist. He was a founding member of the Egyptian Movement for Change, or Kefaya. His works in English include the novels The Yacoubian Building, Chicago and The Republic of False Truths