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...
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....
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...
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...
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 he...
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...
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 more than 45 novels and short-story collections, some 30 screenplays, and several...
Today 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...
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.
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.
