Naguib Mahfouz (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Until the 1960’s Naguib Mahfouz was considered a talented but uncontroversial author and public servant. He was a member of Egypt’s ruling elite whose initial enthusiasm for Gamal Abdel Nasser’s revolutionary government led to his 1954 appointment as director of censorship in the Egyptian government’s department of art. His reputation as a loyalist was enhanced by his publication of the “Cairo Trilogy”—Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957). These works (which later brought him a Nobel Prize in...
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