Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was something of an experimental writer. In his 35 novels, 350-plus short stories and several plays, he injected many of the features of the Western novel into Arab ...

Ahmad Akif, a civil servant who hates his going-nowhere job, has had to move his parents and himself from a more prosperous neighborhood to the Khan al-Khalili - where they believe the holy site ...

Ahmad Naguib Roushdy. The writer is an international lawyer. A Palestinian state in Sinai ...

Ahmad engages in a seemingly interminable string of extra-marital affairs, choosing among musicians and women of high society almost without discernment. And this is where things get dicey for me.

Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation ... 1957, portrayed three generations of an Egyptian family struggling against an autocratic ruler, the patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad.