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Naguib Mahfouz
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it.
A tumultuous neighbourhood known…
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Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a…
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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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Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006. Here…
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A selection of the most important works of Egypt’s Nobel literature laureate
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In this special new and expanded edition of the bestselling book first published in 1999, photographer Britta Le Va guides us through the back streets and alleys of Naguib Mahfouz…
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A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Included is a full biography and systematic analysis of the writer’s works.
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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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.
An omnibus edition of three acclaimed novels by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer includes Wedding Song, The Search, and Respected Sir, about a man of humble origins who dreams of…
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The sudden death of Kamel Effendi plunges his middle class family into poverty and a desperate struggle to survive.
After the death of Akhenaten, a young man searches for the truth about the heretic pharaoh, interviewing Akhenaten’s closest friends, most dangerous enemies, and even his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti, about…
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On his ‘journey from the dreams of the jinn to the love of the truth’ Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, ‘let life be filled with holy…
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Set in Anwar al-Sadat’s Egypt, this novel relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family, narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson, Elwan…
Exposing the dark underbelly of ideology, and delving into the idea of the ‘necessary evils’ of social upheaval, Karnak Cafe remains one of the Nobel laureate’s most pointedly critical works…
Tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s historic neighborhood during the Second World War. Through the eyes of Ahmad, the eldest Akif…
Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, this title introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, comes…
PRE-PUBLICATION SPECIAL OFFER. 20 volumes celebrating the centenary of Mahfouzs birth. All his novels, three collections of short stories and his autobiographical writings.
The Nobel laureate puts Egypt’s leaders on trial
Pharoah Merenra II embarks on a passionate love affair with the beautiful courtesan Rhadopis, unaware of the growing resentment and intrigues of the world around them, in the story of…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
The Nobel laureate’s masterful study of a disturbed man’s struggle with the realities of everyday life
A collection of autobiographical reflections from the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature. The author considers the perplexities of existence, including his preoccupations with old age and death…
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.
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as…
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…
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…
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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…
In this collection Mahfouz deals with diverse political topics such as socio-economic class, democracy and dictatorship, Islam and extremism.
The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual.
Near the end of his life, an ill family patriarch surveys his family–son Kamal, in love with a prostitute; and his grandchildren, among them a communist activist, a Muslim fundamentalist…
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.
New fiction from Nobel prizewinning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz
Originally published in Arabic in 1956-7, this is the first part of The Cairo Trilogy by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner. It tells the story of an Egyptian family in…
Naguib, Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt – Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street – appears here in one volume for the first time: the engrossing story of…
The illustrated biography of the Nobel laureate by a leading scholar of Arabic literature
Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world’s best-known writer and the single most important chronicler and analyst of twentieth-century Egypt. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and…
