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الكرنك El-Karnak
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Hekayat Haretna Maktabit Misr 1999- Price 4$
ثرثرة فوق النيل
Tharthara fawk el-Nil
(Adrift on the Nile)
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Whisperings on the Nile
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El-Harafish Naguib Mahfouz -a novel- Maktabit Misr 1985- Price $7
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Yawm Kotel al-Za'im
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Akhenaten : Dweller in Truth
by Najib
Mahfuz, et al. Paperback (March 2000)
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Arabian Nights and Days
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The Beginning and the End
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Children of the Alley
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Echoes of an Autobiography
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Echoes of an Autobiography
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The Harafish
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Midaq Alley
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Palace of Desire (Cairo Trilogy Ii)
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Palace Walk
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Book Reviews
Arabian Nights
and Days
An imaginative and magical retelling of the tales of
the Arabian Nights. The most magical work yet set into English by Egyptian Nobel laureate
Mahfouz. It is filled with beloved characters: Sheherazad, Maarouf the Cobbler,
Aladdin, Sinbad, and genies. Although set in an Islamic City in medieval times, the fables
bring to mind present day themes.
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The Harafish
The Harafish is a novel about generations of a
family living in an alley in an unspecified city, presumably Cairo. The story covers
something like 800 years, but time does not seem to pass as events mirror each other
across the generations.
"Harafish" is the Arabic word for riffraff;
for Mahfouz, it means the common people,
"The Harafish," in 10 epic tales, traces the
history of the al-Nagi family through 10 generations.
The literary manner is that of myth, fable, allegory or
parable,yet the effect is of the most intense actuality because Mahfouz's
understanding of human psychology and history is so profound.
The incidents in "The Harafish" are colorful,
dramatic and often violent -- there is murder, suicide, deviant sexuality, domestic
violence and every form of family support and conflict; all of this of course is a kind of
metaphor for government and the process, not the progress, of history.
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ثرثرة فوق النيل
Tharthara fawk el-Nil
Adrift on the Nile
It is the late sixties, and for the group of friends who meet night after night on the houseboat on the
Nile, times have changed. Nasser has ushered in an age of enormous social change, and these middle-aged sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie are left high and dry, to gather beneath the moonlight, to smoke and chat and inhabit a cosy and enchanted world. But one night Art and
Reality collide with unforeseen consequences.
In Adrift on the Nile, Mahfouz has given us a tale, at once thrilling and deeply serious, which
exposes the human and artistic dilemmas of modern times.
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Yawm
Kotel al-Za'im The Day the Leader Was Killed
In this breathtakingly compact novel, written in the mid-1980s, the focus is once again on the
generational paradigm featured in the Cairo Trilogy.
This time, Mahfouz traces the life of a middle-class Cairene family living in the early 1980s under President
Sadat. It was an era of transition in Egypt, a time of acute crisis, as everywhere ordinary people were being pushed into the "abyss of
Infitah." In the mad rush, there was a sense of an ending, a feeling of panic as the innocent helplessly watched their world rapidly disintegrating. A whole way
of life with its age-old traditions and values was simply falling apart, making way for a merciless new materialism in "the kingdom of the corrupt," where survival had indeed to be for the fittest.
The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event
around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven.
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الشحاذ
el-Shahath The Beggar in
arabic
Set in Cairo in the early 1950s, this novel portrays the psychological torment of Omar, an
ardent revolutionary in his youth who in middle age has been left behind by Nasser's 1952 Revolution.
His conscience has died. As he struggles for psychological renewal, he sacrifices his work and his
family to a series of illicit love affairs, which simply increase his alienation from himself and from the
rest of the world.
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