The Gulf Centre for Human Rights pays tribute to prominent Emirati human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq who died in a tragic car accident in the UK, and joins the growing calls for an investigation ...

Prominent Emirati rights activist, Alaa Al-Siddiq, 33, died in a car accident near London on Saturday. The UK-based human rights organization which she chaired, ALQST, announced her death in a ...

The Republic of False Truths. By Alaa Al Aswany. Translated by S.R. Fellowes. Faber; 464 pages; £16.99. To be published in America by Knopf in August; $28.95 IN “THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING” (2002), Alaa ...

Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd al-Fattah was released from prison on Monday, ending a six-year detention on charges widely decried as politically motivated, after the Egyptian government pardoned ...

When Egypt erupted in revolution in 2011, Alaa Al Aswany was among the hundreds of thousands protesting every day in Cairo’s Tahrir Square until President Hosni Mubarak was finally forced from office.

Alaa Al Aswany, one of the most renowned novelists of the Arab world, almost gave up writing. After Egypt’s state publisher rejected his first two novels in the 1990s, he published them himself, ...