Reworking of award-winning Egyptian writer's catalogue stirs debate while attracting young generation ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic ...

Diwan Publishing told Al-Ahram Weekly about their plans for the Cairo Book Fair’s mascot this year, Youssef Rakha and Soha Hesham report ...

BERLIN – Nobel-prize-winning Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz’s “Wedding Song,” about the vibrant 1970’s Cairo theatre scene, will be adapted into an Arab TV series with international ambitions by ...

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. The ...

KUWAIT: The main hall of the 57th Cairo International Book Fair concluded its activities with an extensive intellectual ...

The growing number of Arabic novelists are part of a genre whose roots grew from the work of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, according to one of his nominators. Mahfouz “brought the genre of the ...

Arabian Nights and Days, by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (Anchor Books, $12). “At the heart of `Arabian Nights and Days,’ an enthralling novel by Egyptian Nobel Prize winner ...

Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz has died. He was 94. Mahfouz was the first Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He is credited with perfecting the novel-form in the Arabic language, ...

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, and in ...

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