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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
1,267 words, approx. 4 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.... summary from source:
 Biography of Naguib Mahfouz
2,506 words, approx. 8 pages
 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... 
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 Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
77 words, approx. 1 pages
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. The real malady is fear of life, not of death. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Naguib Mahfouz Information
2,663 words, approx. 9 pages
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ, Nagīb Maḥfūẓ) (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Arabic literature. He is regarded as one of the first...
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 World Literature Today Naguib Mahfouz.(AUTHOR PROFILE)(Biography)
05/01/2005: 612 words, approx. 2 pages NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born December 11, i911, in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of seven children born to a middle-class Egyptian civil service family. After graduating from Cairo University in 1934, Mahfouz worked as a journalist for a number of local publications. At twenty-eight... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Naguib Mahfouz creates a mythic history
04/08/1994: 791 words, approx. 3 pages HARAFISH By Naguib Mahfouz Doubleday, 406 pp., $22.95 When the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in 1988, his work had an audience of millions of readers, almost none of them in America. Since the prize, however, Doubleday has... summary from source:
 AP News Today in history - Aug. 30
8/30/2007: 581 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Thursday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2007. There are 123 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Ten years ago, on Aug. 30, 1997, came reports of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and... summary from source:
AP News Roll Call of Notable Deaths in 2006
12/18/2006: 1,857 words, approx. 6 pagesWith "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusaders for human rights. Shelley Winters and Wendy Wasserstein made their mark in the performing...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Menahem Milson
15,201 words, approx. 51 pages
In the following essay, Milson traces Mahfouz's development as a writer and discusses his major thematic concerns.
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Critical Essay by Mary Ann Weaver
13,281 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Weaver considers the impact of religious and political events on Mahfouz's life and career—particularly the attempt on Mahfouz's life in 1994.
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Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%Hopes, Dreams and Aspirations in "Midaq Alley"
631 words, approx. 2 pages
The significance of hopes, dreams and aspirations are used in Naguib Mahfouz's novel "Midaq Alley" as illustrations of the struggle between the Egyptians' loyalty toward their old customs and their desire to moved into modernity and materialism.
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