SOURCE: “The Shroud of Mahfouz,” in New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, February 2, 1989, pp. 19–21.
In the following essay, Shammas discusses Mahfouz as an Arabic novelist and considers his influence on Arabic literature.
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