About: The Yacoubian Building   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān) is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany.Published in Arabic in 2002 and in an English translation in 2004, the book, set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état (aka Revolution) of 1952. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. Al Aswany's first dentist's office was in the actual Yacoubian Building.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • The Yacoubian Building
rdfs:comment
  • The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān) is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany.Published in Arabic in 2002 and in an English translation in 2004, the book, set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état (aka Revolution) of 1952. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. Al Aswany's first dentist's office was in the actual Yacoubian Building.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:literature/...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān) is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany.Published in Arabic in 2002 and in an English translation in 2004, the book, set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état (aka Revolution) of 1952. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. Al Aswany's first dentist's office was in the actual Yacoubian Building. The books characters are a hodge-podge of imperfect people, including a sultry woman, an elderly aristocrat, a student with fundamentalist leanings, and a corrupt politician. The sexual frankness of the novel caused a stir in Egypt when it was first published.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software