On May 28, 2025, an African literary iroko fell. Ngugi wa Thiong’o departed the earth at 87 years old and joined the realm of the ancestors. Born James ...

On May 28, 2025, an African literary iroko fell. Ngugi wa Thiong’o departed the earth at 87 years old and joined the realm of the ancestors.Born James Ngugi in 1938, he rejected his birth name ...

Of the many books and articles that appeared to mark the 12th anniversary of Naguib Mahfouz’s death, no doubt Mohamed Shoair’s outstanding work, The Children of Gebelawi: The Story of a Banned ...

A new book by Mohamed Salmawy includes interviews with Naguib Mahfouz that were conducted after the failed attempt on his life in 1994; says he has 500 hours of audio taped interviews with the ...

Remembering Mahfouz. Abdel-Moneim Said. Thursday 6 Sep 2018. ... I picked up Al-Masry Al-Youm last Friday to find the headline, “We miss you, Uncle Naguib.” ...

Six years on after Naguib Mahfouz passed away, his seven plays are still rarely mentioned, despite their important literary value On the sixth anniversary of the late Egyptian Nobel Laureate ...

Naguib, an outspoken critic of Morsi's rule and founder of the secular, liberal Free Egyptians Party, has maintained that the move was politically motivated.

Mostafa Naguib was an Egyptian sculptor who gained fame for his work propagating the 1952 revolution and was hailed by Gamal Abdel Nasser. He moved to the USA in 1970 with his absence from the ...