Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died today at the age of 94. I met him in December. He was at the back of a bar in a Cairo hotel on the Nile ...

2006-08-31 04:00:00 PDT Cairo-- Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt's master storyteller and the only Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 94.

Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died after suffering from a bleeding ulcer, Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency reported. Mahfouz died at ...

I met Naguib Mahfouz once. It was in the winter of 2006, and I’d been living in Cairo for three and a half years. The writer Gamal Al-Ghitani, an old friend of Mahfouz’s, provided me with an ...

Naguib Mahfouz, the cafe denizen who became the first Arab author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature–in 1988, for novels that evoked the scent, color and texture of life in the streets ...

(CNN) -- Naguib Mahfouz, the legendary Egyptian story-teller who is the only writer in Arabic to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, has died aged 95 in Cairo, his doctor said. Mahfouz -- whose ...

This time, on April 16, it’s honoring the legendary novelist Naguib Mahfouz. The initiative, titled Mahfouz in Our Hearts, is a clever play on his name (Mahfouz literally means “preserved ...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has paid tribute to writer Naguib Mahfouz, who has died in Cairo at the age of 94. "Mahfouz was a cultural light... who brought Arab literature to the world," he said ...

In the ancient city of Cairo, it is Naguib Mahfouz who does the haunting. This is not simply because he was a towering literary figure, and the joyous chronicler of a turbulent Egyptian century.

The Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz sculpted characters not just in his novels but also in the minds of his readers. Cinema also helped him. No Arab novelist has had more ...