SOURCE: Elad, Ami. “Mahfuz's ‘Za‘balāwī’: Six Stations of a Quest.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 26, no. 4 (November 1994): 631-44.
In the following essay, Elad contends that Mahfouz utilizes mythic themes, Egyptian cultural elements, motifs from the work of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus, and Islamic ideology to illustrate the “dilemma modernity poses for Egyptian society” in “Zabalawi.”
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