Dec 31, 2009
Naguib Mahfouz is primarily known for his long fiction, although he wrote many short stories and some one-act plays, five of which he published with collections of his short stories in Taht al-mazalla (1967). His first publication was a translation into Arabic from English, Misr al-Qadīmah (1931), of James Baikie’s Ancient Egypt (1912). Mahfouz also published numerous pieces of popular journalism and his memoirs, including Echoes of an Autobiography in 1997.
In 1988 Mahfouz received the Nobel...
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