Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Arabic literature. He is regarded as one of the first writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq al-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. Wikipedia
Born:
December 11, 1911
Died:
August 30, 2006
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  • Naguib Mahfouz article from...

    "I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization."
    nobelprize.org/literature/articles/mahfouz/index.html

  • Cornell biography

    Naguib Mahfouz is considered one of the foremost writers in modern Arabic literature.
    www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/mahfz.htm

  • Islamica Magazine - In...

    ISLAMICA Magazine - The World's Favorite Islamic Magazine
    www.islamicamagazine.com/issue-18/in-memoriam.html

  • Wikipedia

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  • BBC NEWS | Entertainment |...

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has paid tribute to writer Naguib Mahfouz, who has died in Cairo at the age of 94.
    news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5297470.stm

  • Nobel Prize in Literature...

    Naguib Mahfouz Through the Swedish Academy's decision this year the Nobel Prize in Literature has for the first time been awarded to an Egyptian.
    nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/pre...

  • Naguib Mahfouz

    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Gamaliya, Cairo. The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in al-Jamaliyyah, from where they moved in 1924 to al-Abbasiya, then a new Cairo suburb; both have provided the backdrop for many of the author's writings.
    www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mahfouz.htm

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    news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_mahfouz

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  • Naguib Mahfouz on IMDb

    Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. 19 July 2006: hospitalized in intensive care after falling and injuring his head. He is best known for his Cairo Trilogy, which describes life in the more than 1,000-year-old Islamic quarter of the Egypt
    www.imdb.com/name/nm0536914/