Naguib Mahfouz

Egypt's Nobel Laureate

by Rasheed El-Enany

2007 194 pages eng

Naguib Mahfouz is the most important Arabic fiction writer of this century. Born in 1911, his long and prolific writing career represents the evolution of a novel genre in Arabic literature. His books are a rich record of the tragic tensions attendant on a nations's quest for freedom and modernity. …