In the following excerpt, Kearns praises Mahfouz's complex portrayal of a middle-class Muslim family in the 1920s in his “Cairo Trilogy.”
Three and a half decades have passed s...
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In the following essay, El-Enany explores Mahfouz's preoccupation with time and how it affects the individuals and communities in Mahfouz's “Cairo Trilogy” and Qushtumur.
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In the following review, Allen discusses the third book in “Cairo Trilogy,” Sugar Street, and describes how the trilogy has developed since the first book, Palace Walk.
Those readers ...
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Egyptian author (b. Dec. 11, 1911,
Cairo, Egypt
—d. Aug. 30, 2006,
Cairo
), was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the first Arabic writer to be so honoured.
Mahfouz
wrote mo...
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Critical Review by George Kearns
Mahfouz, Naguib
