| and publication in the form of a book was | Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved |
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| The successive heroes overthrow the strongmen of their time, but in the next generation new strongmen spring up and things are as bad as ever | The Chief Strongman guesses the truth and blackmails Arafa into helping him to become the dictator of the whole Alley |
The people say "Oppression must cease as night yields to day.
3| Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2001 | The book ends, after the murder of Arafa, with his friend searching in a rubbish tip for the book in which Arafa wrote his secrets |
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| Critics claimed that Gabalawi stands for | However, Three Continents Press still had license to publish on the American market, and Stewart wanted to continue publishing quietly in America and to avoid a world-wide relaunch of such a controversial book, but when he refused to sell his , American University of Cairo commissioned a new version by for Doubleday to launch backdated to 1959 |
1997, USA, Passeggata Press, , Pub date 1997, paperback as Children of Gebelaawi - Stewart's version revised• As a result, in 1994 — a day after the anniversary of the prize — Mahfouz was attacked and stabbed in the neck by two outside his Cairo home.
14| Central to the plot are the futuwwat strongmen who control the alley and exact from the people | |
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| Mahfouz survived the attack, yet he suffered from its consequences until his death in 2006 | Children of Gebelaawi, 1997 edition referenced above , introduction, pp |
It was met with severe opposition from , and was only released uncut in its entirety due to the intervention of president , who was a friend of Al-Ahram's editor, Mohammed Heikal.
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