Naguib Mahfouz

The Epic of the Harafish Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz's greatest and most important epic, in which he describes the human soul and its struggle between the search for salvation and the pursuit of pleasure. Ten tales, teeming with life's struggles, sweetness, and...

Between the two palaces Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz Between the Two Palaces is the first part of Naguib Mahfouz's famous trilogy, in which Cairo, and the Hussein district in particular, form the primary and sole stage. The novel tells the story of a middle-class...

Children of Gebelawi Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz Geblawi lives in his large house surrounded by gardens and high walls, surrounded by his sons and grandchildren, who are fighting over the endowment, while the thugs control the neighborhood and stand between Geblawi's sons and their...

One Thousand and One Nights Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz A fantasy novel inspired by the world of One Thousand and One Nights and its astonishing characters. Just as One Thousand and One Nights is considered the most important and fertile of all Eastern classics...

Palace of Longing Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz The second part of Naguib Mahfouz's famous trilogy, considered by many critics and literary experts to be the best and most important Arabic novel. This part deals with the period following the 1919 Revolution in the life...

Sugar Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz The third part of Naguib Mahfouz's famous trilogy, considered by many critics and literary experts to be the best and most important Arabic novel. Set between the mid-1930s and early 1940s, this part witnesses the greatest number of transformations...

The Thief and the Dogs Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz The Thief and the Dogs is a novel written by Naguib Mahfouz in 1961. It is considered one of his most famous novels after the trilogy. The novel represents the beginning of a new phase...

beginning and end Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz The mother struggles to support her four children after the father's death, and faces a devastating economic crisis that relegates the family to the lowest floor of the same building. The eldest son, Hassan, is unemployed and...

The Age of Love Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz It's "The Age of Love" by Naguib Mahfouz, which caught my attention and I said that it carries the phrase "Love is life and life is love" and here I didn't mean love in the narrow...

The Harafish Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz It tells the ten stories of generations of a family who lived in an Egyptian neighborhood of unknown time and place (it is believed to be in Al-Hussein, at the beginning of the Alawite dynasty in Egypt). The...

Miramar Author: Naguib Mahfouz   A novel set in a pension in Alexandria, where a captivating conflict unfolds from multiple perspectives across the chapters, centered around the beautiful rural maid among the residents of "Miramar Pension." The novel was adapted into a film in...

Heart of the Night Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz The novel revolves around a philosophical dialogue about the life of Jaafar Al-Rawi, a seeker of freedom and the wealth of his grandfather, Sayyid Al-Rawi. His "sacred madness" drove him to live his life to the...

New Cairo Author: Naguib Mahfouz Mahjoub Abdel Dayem faces an economic crisis that makes him resentful of his social status and willing to do anything to get rich and rise to higher and more prestigious positions. This includes entering into a sham marriage with...

Ibn Fattouma's Journey Author: Naguib Mahfouz The young Arab man "Qandil al-Annaby," or Ibn Fattouma the traveler, as he would later be known, fails to marry his beloved. His teacher encourages him to embark on a journey through neighboring lands in search of perfection...

Midaq Alley Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz Hamida resents her life in Midaq Alley and seeks to leave it for a life of luxury and sophistication. She works as a prostitute through the pimp Farag, who takes her out of the poverty of the alley...

Midaq Alley Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz Hamida resents her life in Midaq Alley and seeks to leave it for a life of luxury and sophistication. She works as a prostitute through the pimp Farag, who takes her out of the poverty of the alley...

Whisper of Madness Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz It seems to be a mysterious state, like life and death. You can know much about it if you look at it from the outside; but the inside, the essence, is a closed secret. Our friend now...

Politics, Society and Youth: The Annals of Naguib Mahfouz Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz In this field, Naguib Mahfouz monitored the birth of new political and philosophical trends that dominated the entire twentieth century, and how the old beliefs upon which entire civilizations were based...

Religion, Philosophy and Culture: The Annals of Naguib Mahfouz Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz In this field, Naguib Mahfouz touches upon extremely serious issues, with an enlightened vision and conscious openness, that remain the subject of debate and controversy to this day. These issues include:...

crime Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz What drives the poor people of the eastern neighborhood to cooperate with the lords of the western neighborhood in concealing a crime despite the unity of the contradictions between the two sides: - A question that confirms that you...