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Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

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Name: Najib Mahfuz
Birth Date: December 12, 1912
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Nationality: Egyptian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Najib Mahfuz
1267 words, approx. 4.2 pages
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 the West in the latter half of the 20th century. Najib...
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Biography of Naguib Mahfouz
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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 viewed by many critics outside the Middle East as the e...


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Midaq Alley Information
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This article is about the Naguib Mahfouz novel. For the film of the novel, see Midaq Alley. For the alley, see Khan...


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Publishers Weekly
Midaq Alley. (book reviews)
12/06/1991: 208 words, approx. 1 pages
* MIDAQ ALLEY Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Trevor Le Gassick. Anchor, $8.50 ISBN 0-38526476-3 Dwelling in Cairo's impoverished Midaq Alley during WW II, a motley crew of characters springs to vibrant life in Egyptian Nobel laureate Mahfouz's (the Cairo Trilogy) artfully rendered...
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Paradise Alley: A Novel. (Fiction). (book review)
09/09/2002: 305 words, approx. 1 pages
KEVIN BAKER. HarperCollins, $26.95 (688p) ISBN 0-06-019582-7 * In his second New York novel (after Dreamland), Baker takes a grisly event--the 1863 Civil War draft riots--and crafts a terrifying, human story bursting with all the calamity, brutality and power of the riots themselves,...
 


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Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

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