Naguib Mahfouz is widely regarded as Egypt's finest writer. While his works remained largely unknown in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century, the author has nevertheless been v...
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Najib Mahfuz (born 1912) was Egypt's foremost novelist and the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He had wide influence in the Arab world and was the author from that area best known to ...
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Hopes, dreams and aspirations are extremely significant to this novel, Midaq Alley. They are devices employed by Naguib Mahfouz to illustrate the struggle between the Egyptians' loyalty towards their ...
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