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Start the Week: Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt

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18/01/2016

Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt

Tom Sutcliffe with Alaa Al Aswany, Wendell Steavenson, Hugh Kennedy and Tarek Osman.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses Egypt with novelist Alaa Al Aswany, journalist Wendell Steavenson, academic Hugh Kennedy and political economist Tarek Osman.

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany about his latest novel which charts the country's social upheaval through the prism of Cairo's elite Automobile Club of Egypt. The foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson looks back at the Egyptian revolution as the crowds gathered in Tahrir Square in 2011. The political economist Tarek Osman explores how Islamism has spread through the Middle East, and what its future prospects mean for the region, while Professor Hugh Kennedy charts the rise of the Caliphate and how the so-called Islamic State uses the iconography of early Islam as propaganda.

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