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Essays of the Sadat Era: The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II
Naguib Mahfouz
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Description for Essays of the Sadat Era: The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II
Hardcover. In this collection Mahfouz deals with diverse political topics such as socio-economic class, democracy and dictatorship, Islam and extremism. Translator(s): Byrne, Aran; Harris, Russell. Series: The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
When Naguib Mahfouz quit his job as a civil servant in 1971, a Nobel Prize in literature was still off on the horizon, as was his global recognition as the central figure of Arab literature. He was just beginning his post on the editorial staff of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, and elsewhere in Cairo, Anwar Sadat was just beginning his hugely transformative Egyptian presidency, which would span eleven years and come to be known as the Sadat era. This book offers English-language readers the first glimpse of the Sadat era through Mahfouz s eyes, a collection of pieces ... Read more
When Naguib Mahfouz quit his job as a civil servant in 1971, a Nobel Prize in literature was still off on the horizon, as was his global recognition as the central figure of Arab literature. He was just beginning his post on the editorial staff of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, and elsewhere in Cairo, Anwar Sadat was just beginning his hugely transformative Egyptian presidency, which would span eleven years and come to be known as the Sadat era. This book offers English-language readers the first glimpse of the Sadat era through Mahfouz s eyes, a collection of pieces ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gingko Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz
Condition
New
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909942806
SKU
V9781909942806
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About Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) is regarded by many as the greatest Arabic writer of the twentieth century. Born in the old Islamic Quarter of Cairo in 1911, he began writing when he was seventeen before entering university to study as a student of philosophy in 1930. He is the author of over thirty novels - including a number of masterpieces, such ... Read more
Reviews for Essays of the Sadat Era: The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II
[F]ollows Mahfouz's introspective literary aesthetic that considers itself uniquely Egyptian, and yet, can only work within the shared universal language of the novel
one of humanity's great inventions after fire, the wheel, and alphanumeric writing on papyrus scrolls. This book keeps reminding its reader of the absence of this novelistic vision as it offers a compilation of brief articles Mahfouz wrote ... Read more
one of humanity's great inventions after fire, the wheel, and alphanumeric writing on papyrus scrolls. This book keeps reminding its reader of the absence of this novelistic vision as it offers a compilation of brief articles Mahfouz wrote ... Read more