The Yacoubian Building
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The Yacoubian Building is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa-Al-Aswany. The book was made into a film of the same name in 2006 and into a TV series in 2007.
The book's cover
Yacoubian Building (Cairo)
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The Yacoubian Building is a mixed-use building in Downtown Cairo, Egypt, built in 1937. Located on No. 34 on Talaat Harb Street, Cairo, the Art Deco style edifice was named after its Lebanese-Armenian
The Yacoubian Building
…characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. The author, a dentist by profession, had his first office in the Yacoubian Building in Cairo. The Yacoubian Building was the best-selling Arabic novel for 2002 and 2003, and was voted Best Novel for 2003 by listeners to Egypt's Middle…
Cairo - Downtown - Talaat Harb Street, the Yacoubian building is on the left
The Yacoubian Building at 24 Talaat Harb St, Cairo, in October 2022.