| 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.
3| He 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.
19| Mahfouz 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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