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Naguib Mahfouz
Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a…
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Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed…
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Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920’s and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices…
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The sudden death of Kamel Effendi plunges his middle class family into poverty and a desperate struggle to survive.
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Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, this title introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, comes…
The story of an Egyptian family mirrors the spiritual history of humankind as a feudal lord disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another son to the ultimate test.
Near the end of his life, an ill family patriarch surveys his family–son Kamal, in love with a prostitute; and his grandchildren, among them a communist activist, a Muslim fundamentalist…
Najaib Maohfauoz
A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many…
Gamal Al-Ghitani
In this special new and expanded edition of the bestselling book first published in 1999, photographer Britta Le Va guides us through the back streets and alleys of Naguib Mahfouz…
Denys Johnson-Davies
A selection of the most important works of Egypt’s Nobel literature laureate
Rasheed El-Enany
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Included is a full biography and systematic analysis of the writer’s works.
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as…
Set in Anwar al-Sadat’s Egypt, this novel relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family, narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson, Elwan…
Tells stories of the residents of a Cairo back alley, including those of Kirsha, a cafe owner, Abbas, a barber, and Hamida, a young woman.
Pharoah Merenra II embarks on a passionate love affair with the beautiful courtesan Rhadopis, unaware of the growing resentment and intrigues of the world around them, in the story of…
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and…
With a writing career spanning some seventy years, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most recognized writers in the world. This title offers a collection of quotations selected from the…
Set in Cairo, this title traces the fortunes of three families from the arrival of Napoleon at the end of the eighteenth century to the 1980s. It is a tale…
Translated into English for the first time, Cairo Modern, one of Nobel laureate Mahfouz’s most daring novels, is the tale of a doomed mnage a trois.
An omnibus edition of three acclaimed novels by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer includes Wedding Song, The Search, and Respected Sir, about a man of humble origins who dreams of…
After the death of Akhenaten, a young man searches for the truth about the heretic pharaoh, interviewing Akhenaten’s closest friends, most dangerous enemies, and even his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti, about…
Through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical order–ranging from the arrival of Napoleon up through the 1980s– Morning and Evening Talk produces a kind of biographical dictionary. These individual entries…
The Nobel laureate puts Egypt’s leaders on trial
Tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s historic neighborhood during the Second World War. Through the eyes of Ahmad, the eldest Akif…
The Nobel laureate’s masterful study of a disturbed man’s struggle with the realities of everyday life
A collection of autobiographical reflections from the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature. The author considers the perplexities of existence, including his preoccupations with old age and death…
These three novels, previously published separately, are meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Nobel Laureate Mahfouz presents a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait…
After centuries of occupation, the Hyksos leader in northern Egypt tells Pharaoh in the south that the roaring, sacred hippopotami at Thebes are keeping him awake at night and demands…
The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual.
Just released from prison, Said Mahran finds himself betrayed by the most important people in his life–forgotten by his daughter, abandoned by his wife, and rejected by his mentor.
As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family’s destiny…
Exposing the dark underbelly of ideology, and delving into the idea of the ‘necessary evils’ of social upheaval, Karnak Cafe remains one of the Nobel laureate’s most pointedly critical works…
A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate
PRE-PUBLICATION SPECIAL OFFER. 20 volumes celebrating the centenary of Mahfouzs birth. All his novels, three collections of short stories and his autobiographical writings.
In this collection Mahfouz deals with diverse political topics such as socio-economic class, democracy and dictatorship, Islam and extremism.
New fiction from Nobel prizewinning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz
Originally published in Arabic in 1956-7, this is the first part of The Cairo Trilogy by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner. It tells the story of an Egyptian family in…
Amel Derragui
This book deals with time in the Cairo trilogy of Naguib Mahfouz, even if it is mainly the first part Impasse of the Two Palaces and the last one -…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz’s Fountain and Tomb, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz’s Half a Day, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
