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...

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...

By Naguib Mahfouz. New York: Anchor Books, 1991. ISBN 0-385-26466-6 (paperback). 498 pages. $14. Palace Walk (Bayn al-qasrayn in Arabic) is the 1990 English translation of a 1956 work by Naguib Mahfouz. It is the foremost of more than 30 novels written by...

Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz (Doubleday, 498 pp., $22.95) WHEN THE EGYPTIAN writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988--the first Arab writer to be so honored--it wasn't owing to his world-wide reputation. In fact, in the United States,...

In the following review, El-Enany discusses the various translation problems in Palace Walk.

In the following negative review of Palace Walk, Morrissey unfavorably compares the novel to the work of Charles Dickens, asserting that it “lacks the verve and structure that made Dickens so readable.”