Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz (born December 11, 1911) is an Egyptian novelist.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in the Gamaliya quarter of Cairo, delivered by Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz. A longtime civil servant, Mahfouz served in the Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, as Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and, finally, as a consultant to the Ministry of Culture. During his career he has published more than 30 novels. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988.
Many of his novels were first published in serialized form, including Midaq Alley and Children of Gebelawi.
One of Mahfouz's works has been banned in Egypt for alleged blasphemy. This is Children of Gebelawi (1959). In 1989, after the fatwa for apostasy against Salman Rushdie, a blind Egyptian theologian, Omar Abdul-Rahman, told a journalist that if Mahfouz had been punished for writing this novel, Rushdie would not have dared publish his. The sheikh has always maintained that this was not a fatwa, but in 1994 some extremists, believing that it had been one, attempted to assassinate the 82-year-old novelist outside his Cairo home. He now lives under constant bodyguard protection.
US trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas titled a song on his 2001 album Witness "Mahfouz". The 25-minute piece features singer Tom Waits reading an excerpt from Mahfouz's works.
Works
- Whisper of Madness (1938)
- Mockery of the Fates (1939)
- Rhadopis of Nubia (1943)
- Modern Cairo (1945)
- Khan al-Khalili 1945
- Midaq Alley (1947)
- The Beginning and The End (1950)
- The Cairo Trilogy
- Children of Gebelawi (1959)
- The Thief and the Dogs (1961)
- Quail and Autumn (1962)
- The Search (1964)
- Chatting on the Nile (1966)
- Miramar (1967)
- Mirrors (1972)
- al-Karnak (1974)
- Respected Sir (1975)
- The Harafish (1977)
- Love and the Veil (1980)
- Arabian Nights and Days (1981)
- Weddding Song (1981)
- The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (1983)
- Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (1985)
See also
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