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Naguib Mahfouz
The story of an Egyptian family mirrors the spiritual history of humankind as a feudal lord disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another son to the ultimate test.
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Translated into English for the first time, Cairo Modern, one of Nobel laureate Mahfouz’s most daring novels, is the tale of a doomed mnage a trois.
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Through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical order–ranging from the arrival of Napoleon up through the 1980s– Morning and Evening Talk produces a kind of biographical dictionary. These individual entries…
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and…
Tells stories of the residents of a Cairo back alley, including those of Kirsha, a cafe owner, Abbas, a barber, and Hamida, a young woman.
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Just released from prison, Said Mahran finds himself betrayed by the most important people in his life–forgotten by his daughter, abandoned by his wife, and rejected by his mentor.
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New fiction from Nobel prizewinning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz
The sudden death of Kamel Effendi plunges his middle class family into poverty and a desperate struggle to survive.
Najaib Maohfauoz
A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many…
With a writing career spanning some seventy years, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most recognized writers in the world. This title offers a collection of quotations selected from the…
After centuries of occupation, the Hyksos leader in northern Egypt tells Pharaoh in the south that the roaring, sacred hippopotami at Thebes are keeping him awake at night and demands…
These three novels, previously published separately, are meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Nobel Laureate Mahfouz presents a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait…
As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family’s destiny…
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Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920’s and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices…
Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed…
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The books’ titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz’s childhood and youth. The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad…
