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.
3Cairo: 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.
14Central 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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