About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Abdel Hakim Qasem, Abeer Almadawy, Achilles Tatius, Ahdaf Soueif, Ahmed Alaidy, Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Aisha Taymur, Alaa Al Aswany, Albert Cossery, Alifa Rifaat, Amina Zaydan, Bahaa Taher, Edwar al-Kharrat, Ezzat el Kamhawi, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, Gamal El-Ghitani, George Bahgoury, Hala El Badry, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Hussein Bassir, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, Ibrahim al-Mazini, Ibrahim Aslan, Ibtihal Salem, Idris Ali, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Jacqueline Kahanoff, Khairy Shalaby, May Telmissany, Mekkawi Said, Michael Maurice Prince, Miral al-Tahawy, Mohamed al-Refai, Mohamed el-Bisatie, Mohamed Makhzangi, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Mohamed Mustagab, Mohamed Salah El Azab, Muhammad Aladdin, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Nabil Farouk, Naguib Mahfouz, Nicos Nicolaides, Omar Taher, Radwa Ashour, Sahar Tawfiq, Salwa Bakr, Sayed Gouda, Siham Bayyumi, Somaya Ramadan, Sonallah Ibrahim, Tarek Emam, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Yasser Abdel Hafez, Yusuf Abu Rayya, Yusuf Idris, Zain Abdul Hady. Excerpt: Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic:, IPA: 11 December 1911 - 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films. Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter of Cairo, Mahfouz was named after Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz (1882-1974), the renowned Coptic physician who delivered him. Mahfouz was the seventh and the youngest child in a family that had five boys and two girls. The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to...
