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
Cairo - Downtown - Talaat Harb Street, the Yacoubian building is on the left
The Yacoubian Building at 24 Talaat Harb St, Cairo, in October 2022.
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.
Yacoubian Building (Cairo)
…shopfronts and offices. A fictionalised version of the building serves as a metaphor for Cairo's own deterioration in the 2003 Arabic language novel The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany. The novel was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name, directed by Marwan Hamed. A larger building, located on Talaat Harb Square…
The book's cover