Najib Mahfuz (born 1912) was Egypt's foremost novelist and the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He had wide influence in the Arab world and was the author from that area best known to ...
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Naguib Mahfouz is widely regarded as Egypt's finest writer. While his works remained largely unknown in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century, the author has nevertheless been v...
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In a strange fit of caffeination, The Transom began researching the in-office population of various magazines and newspapers this morning. Yom Kippur in the New York media world is sort of like, we...
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A suspected Colombian cocaine trafficker has been arrested in the kidnapping of an undercover U.S. agent, a Justice Department spokeswoman said Friday.Bayron Jimenez Castaneda, 44, was in Florida o...
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Policemen continued to surround a private residence in Nagakute,
Aichi Prefecture, early Friday as an armed man kept holing up with a
woman believed to be his wife for more than half a day.
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A jury found against Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis on Tuesday in his malpractice lawsuit against two doctors he claimed botched his care after he had gastric bypass surgery five years ago....
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An 8-year-old girl ran more than a marathon and a half a day for nearly two months, jogging 2,212 miles to Beijing followed by her bicycle-riding father, who denied Tuesday that he had forced her.Z...
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An 8-year-old girl ran more than a marathon and a half a day for nearly two months, jogging 2,212 miles to Beijing followed by her bicycle-riding father, who denied Tuesday that he had forced her.Z...
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The top U.S. diplomat for Latin America said on the eve of a trip to Colombia by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he sees no signs of potential armed conflict between the volatile Andean na...
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On Dec. 16, Page Six reported that Annabel Vartanian, a socialite, aspiring actress and daughter of Paul Vartanian, one of New York’s most prominent diamond dealers, had fainted at a party ce...
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Her new single "It's Like That," co-produced by beat master Jermaine Dupri, provides an instant soundtrack for any night of decadence and debauchery. Armed with her usual brand, wispily hypnotic v...
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Japan decided Tuesday to extend for six months the economic
sanctions it imposed on North Korea after its first nuclear test last
October, due to a lack of progress on the nuclear issue as we...
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Najib Mahfuz
Naguib Mahfouz
Left Behind! Or, a Half-Day for the Half-Jews
