Copies of the were hard to find prior to the late 1990s | In 1979 and in 1983 he drew on traditional Arabic narratives as |
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He espoused in many of his works, and expressed sympathies for the post-World-War-era | Mahfouz set the story in the parts of Cairo where he grew up |
In an interview, he elaborated on the stern religious climate at home during his childhood.
3He was the seventh and the youngest child, with four brothers and two sisters, all of them much older than him | The American University in Cairo Press |
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Mahfouz avoided public exposure, especially inquiries into his private life, which might have become, as he put it, "a silly topic in journals and radio programs | Finally, in the beginning of 2006, the novel was published in Egypt with a preface written by Ahmad Kamal Aboul-Magd |
Writing career [ ] Mahfouz in 1960s Mahfouz published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts and five plays over a 70-year career.
19Mahfouz stopped writing for some years after finishing the trilogy | was one of the few cities in which he gladly went and he expressed great respect for |
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Mahfouz's central work in the 1950s was the , which he completed before the | Death threats against Mahfouz followed, including one from the "blind sheikh," Egyptian-born |
I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also.
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