SOURCE: Somekh, Sasson. “The Essence of Naguib Mahfouz.” The Tel Aviv Review 2 (fall 1989): 244-57.
In the following essay, Somekh explicates Mahfouz's vision of Egypt and the human condition as evinced in his short fiction.
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