Further Reading
- Beard, Michael and Adnan Haydar, eds., Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993, 208 p. (Collection of critical essays on Mahfouz and his work.)
- Coates, Joseph, "Nobel Winner Traverses a Cultural and Religious Gap," Chicago Tribune (27 August 1992): 53. (Coates discusses Mahfouz's cultural assumptions in The Journey of Ibn Fattouma.)
- Coates, Joseph, "Tyrannical Patriarch: An Egyptian Family Saga from Nobel-Prize Novelist Naguib Mahfouz," Chicago Tribune Books (23 December 1990): 3. (Coates offers a positive assessment of Palace of Desire, noting that the novel is profoundly influenced by Western literary models.)
- El-Enany, Rasheed, Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning, London: Routledge, 1993, 271 p. (Full-length critical study on Mahfouz.)
- Fayed, Shaimaa, Review of Voices from the Other World, by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt Today (online magazine) (26 March 2003). (Provides a laudatory assessment of Voices from the Other World.)
- Michalak, Barbara, "The Magic Everyday World in ‘The Delusive Dawn’ Short Stories of Nagib Mahfuz," Folia Orientalia 30 (1994): 113-17. (Discusses the major thematic concerns of Mahfouz's “The Delusive Dawn” stories.)
- Milson, Menahem, Najīb Mahfūz: The Novelist-Philosopher of Cairo, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, 304 p. (Milson explores Mahfouz's special interest in names and examines the personal philosophy expressed in his work and interviews.)
- Moosa, Matti, The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: Images of Modern Egypt, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994, 322 p. (Provides a close reading of Mahfouz's early novels.)
- Mustafa, Farouk Abdel Wahab, "Nobel Novelist: Introducing the Work of Egypt's Masterly Naguib Mahfouz," Chicago Tribune Books (21 January 1990): 1, 4. (Mustafa argues that Mahfouz's novels deserve a wider audience in this positive review of The Beginning and the End, The Thief and the Dogs, and Wedding Song.)
- Young, M. J. L., Review of The Beginning and the End, The Search, and The Beggar, by Naguib Mahfouz, Middle Eastern Studies 25, No. 1 (January 1989): 99–102. (Young surveys the major thematic concerns of The Beginning and the End, The Search, and The Beggar.)
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