From Egypt, Alaa Al Aswany. The most popular novelist in the Arab world talks about revolution and Egypt's pro-democracy movement. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to him onstage, last month, at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal, where he won this year's Blue Met Arab Literature Prize.
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