Naguib Mahfouz, trans. from the Arabic by Hisham Matar, photos by Diana Matar. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3102-2 The dreams in this elegant collection from Egyptian ...

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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 ...

In one of several soccer-related items here, Egypt’s greatest novelist, Naguib Mahfouz, dreams of himself as a youthful star on the national team, renowned for “dribbling and scoring skills”.

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In 1947, Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz published a novel entitled Midaq Alley, which followed a group of characters living in the same street in the city of Cairo.

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At the entrance of the Naguib Mahfouz Café, for a little break in the middle of a sunny winter afternoon stroll, one may wonder what the man who documented historic old Cairo would have thought ...