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Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning » Read Now
by Rasheed El-Enany. 271 pgs.

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Khufu's Wisdom » Read Now
by Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Stock. 198 pgs.

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The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: Images of Modern Egypt » Read Now
by Matti Moosa. 322 pgs.

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Until he won the Nobel Prize for the literature in 1988, little was known in the West about the life and literary accomplishments of Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian and the first Arab to receive the award. His writing, here examined by Matti Moosa in its original Arabic, thereafter became widely...
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Until he won the Nobel Prize for the literature in 1988, little was known in the West about the life and literary accomplishments of Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian and the first Arab to receive the award. His writing, here examined by Matti Moosa in its original Arabic, thereafter became widely available and widely scrutinized. Moosa introduces Mahfouz and his principal works to a Western audience by examining his treatment of social, political, and religious themes against the background of twentieth-century Egypt. Often compared to Dickens and Balzac, Mahfouz portrays the condition of the poor and oppressed in a realistic and classically Arabic style. Concentrating on the early novels, Moosa discusses such themes as conflict between generations, the changing role of women, and the humiliating inefficiency of bureaucracy. He describes how Mahfouz, a moderate Muslim, explains Islamic tradition and its place in a modern technological world. Moosa begins with Mahfouz's formative years as an essayist and ends with his Awlad Haratina (translated as Children of Gebelawi), which was considered blasphemous by Islamic fundamentalists when it was serialized in Cairo's daily newspaper in 1959. (It has never been published in book form in Egypt.) He devotes nearly half of the book to Mahfouz's Thulathiyya (Trilogy, completed in 1952), which Mahfouz considers his best work. These novels in particular, Moosa says, accurately convey Mahfouz's representation of both the religious ideas of the zealous Muslim Brotherhood and the tolerant ideas of many modern Muslims. At the same time they offer abundant insight into the social and religious attitudes of Egyptians from all walks of life and of Arab andIslamic culture and institutions.
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Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: Existential Themes in His Writings » Read Now
by Haim Gordon. 152 pgs.

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In 1988 Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. While Mahfouz is first and foremost a storyteller, he gives the reader an extra "baksheesh" by telling stories of persons from all walks of life. By doing so, Mahfouz accurately depicts the existential...
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In 1988 Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. While Mahfouz is first and foremost a storyteller, he gives the reader an extra "baksheesh" by telling stories of persons from all walks of life. By doing so, Mahfouz accurately depicts the existential problems facing contemporary Egyptians. Gordon questioned Mahfouz directly in a series of personal interviews conducted over the past ten years, probing the existential themes in the characters, plots, and issues raised in Mahfouz's stories. The result is an intimate and highly personal look at life in Egypt.
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Re-Reading Women in/to Naguib Mahfouz's al-Liss wa'l kilab (The Thief and the Dogs), in Research in African Literatures » Read Now
by Michelle Hartman. 12 pgs.

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Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (Chap. 7 "Naguib Mahfouz, National Allegory and Neopatriarchy: The Cairo Trilogy") » Read Now
by Anshuman A. Mondal. 291 pgs.

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This book argues that the seemingly intractable political problems that face India and Egypt today have their origins in the ideological and political crises of the early 20th century.
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Dance, Dialogue, and Despair: Existentialist Philosophy and Education for Peace in Israel (Chap. 8 "Naguib Mahfouz: The Search for an Egyptian Thou") » Read Now
by Haim A. Gordon. 254 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Education, Entire Library
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Embargoed Literature, in The Nation » Read Now
by Edward W. Said. 3 pgs.

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Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies ("Naguib Mahfouz" begins on p. 285) » Read Now
by John C. Hawley, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 510 pgs.

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The collapse of empires has resulted in a greater appreciation for indigenous cultures in former colonies and a renaissance of creativity. More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries by expert contributors overview and assess the effects of globalization on literary and cultural studies in the...
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The collapse of empires has resulted in a greater appreciation for indigenous cultures in former colonies and a renaissance of creativity. More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries by expert contributors overview and assess the effects of globalization on literary and cultural studies in the 21st century. Attempting to counter what some have seen as the anglophone bias of postcolonial studies, the volume emphasizes the common heritage of resistance in francophone, hispanophone, and other literatures, including the literatures of nonEuropean postimperial states.
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