Midaq Alley (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Naguib Mahfouz
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Prostitution or prostitutes, World War II, War, Barbershops or barbers, Egypt or Egyptians, Middle East
- Locales: Cairo, Egypt
Places Discussed
Midaq Alley. Small, dead-end street in the ancient Gamaliyya section of Cairo. The ancient stone-surfaced alley leads to historic Santadiquiya Street in the heavily populated urban quarters of Cairo. Among the odoriferous shops and houses lining the alley’s three isolating walls, the sociopolitical ills of Egyptian society, familiar to Mahfouz from his boyhood homes in the Egyptian districts of al-Jamaliya and al-Abbasiya, are revealed through this intimate look into the lives of Uncle Kamil, Sheikh Darwish, and the other residents of the alley.
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