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Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Midaq Alley ; The Thief and the Dogs ; Miramar written by Najīb Maḥfūẓ and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101974656
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Thief and the Dogs written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story. After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to betray him to the police, are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him. But in the most bitter betrayal, his mentor, Rauf Ilwan, once a firebrand revolutionary who convinced Said that stealing from the rich in a unjust society is an act of justice, is now himself a rich man, a respected newspaper editor who wants nothing to do with the disgraced Said. As Said's wild attempts to achieve his idea of justice badly misfire, he becomes a hunted man so driven by hatred that he can only recognize too late his last chance at redemption.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101974664
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Midaq Alley written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait of one small street as a microcosm of the world on the threshold of modernity.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525432035
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of three novels--previously published separately by Anchor--by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East. The Beggar is a complex tale of alienation and despair. In the aftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs. Released from jail in post-Revolutionary times, the hero ofThe Thief and the Dogs blames an unjust society for his ill fortune, eventually bringing himself to destruction. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, isolation, and political downfall about a corrupt bureaucrat who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 revolution in Egypt.
Author : Anthony Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195959X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Alexandria, Real and Imagined written by Anthony Hirst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays, Alexandria and its many images - the real and the imagined - are illuminated from a rich variety of perspectives. These range from art history to epidemiology, from social and cultural analysis to re-readings of Cavafy and Callimachus, from the impressions of foreign visitors to the evidence of police records, from the constructions of Alexandria in Durrell and Forster to those in the twentieth-century Arabic novel.
Author : Don Meredith
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033803
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Where the Tigers Were written by Don Meredith and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Very well then--he would travel. Not all that far, not quite to where the tigers were". This quote from Thomas Mann's Death in Venice might describe Meredith, except that he has traveled far indeed--from the United States to Wales, the Middle East, India, Africa, and finally to Lamu Island, Kenya.
Author : Trevor Le Gassick
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894106590
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Naguib Mahfouz written by Trevor Le Gassick and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Literature East & West written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graydon Carter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101993014
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers written by Graydon Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan Cheever? What does Martin Amis have to say about how Saul Bellow’s love life influenced his writing? Vanity Fair has published many of the most interesting writers and thinkers of our time. Collected here for the first time are forty-one essays exploring how writers influence one another and our culture, from James Baldwin to Joan Didion to James Patterson.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030794767X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Mirage written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz’s psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone. Kamil Ru’ba is a tortured soul who hopes that writing the story of his life will help him gain control of it. Raised by a mother who fled her abusive husband and became overbearingly possessive and protective toward her young son, he has long been isolated emotionally and physically. Now in his twenties, Kamil seeks to escape her posthumous grasp. Finding and successfully courting the woman of his dreams seems to promise salvation, until his ignorance of mature love and his fear and jealousy lead to tragedy.
Author : Bensalem Himmich
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162527
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Polymath written by Bensalem Himmich and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularly material from the writer's works, to construct the personal and intellectual universe of a fourteenth-century genius. The dominant concern of the novel the uneasy relationship between intellectuals and political power, between scholars and authority addresses our times through the transparent veil of history. In the first part of the novel, we are introduced to the mind of Ibn Khaldun as he dictates his work to his scribe and interlocutor. The second part delves into the heart of the man and his retrieval of a measure of happiness and affection in a remarriage, after the drowning of his first wife and their children at sea. Finally we see Ibn Khaldun as a man of action, trying to minimize the imminent horrors of invading armies and averting the sack of Damascus by Tamerlane, only to spend his last years lonely and destitute, having been fired from his post as qadi, his wife having gone to Morocco, and his attempts at saving the political situation having come to nil. "The elusive simplicity and fluency of style manage to entertain and instruct at once. We learn as we read about Ibn Khaldun: his insights into history and historiography, his views of the rise and fall of civilizations, the principles of his sociological thinking, along with intimate aspects of his life, including his tragic losses and his attitude toward women. We also learn of his response to the major crisis of his time, the Tatar invasion of the Mashriq. In short, Ibn Khaldun, the distant and formidable figure, is humanized thanks to this novel." Naguib Mahfouz Medal Award Committee
Author : Muḥammad Bisāṭī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774163395
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Drumbeat written by Muḥammad Bisāṭī and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, leaving the country to the care of its imported labor. How do they handle such newly found freedom? As though steered by a perverse blend between Dante and Scheherazade, we descend layer by layer beneath the façade of modernity: from the colorful multilingual throngs rejoicing for the Emirati team to the hierarchies that underpin them, from the luxurious gardens and swimming pools into the darker secrets of the bedroom, from the rigid and inhibiting strictures of the present to a remote age of innocence. Three narratives interweave to form a tight and thought-provoking examination of the psychology of control. Drumbeat received the Sawiris Foundation Award for Egyptian Literature.
Author : محفوظ، نجيب،
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162657
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The Mirage written by محفوظ، نجيب، and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru'ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to cope with life's challenges. The internal torment and angst that dog him throughout his life and the tragic, ironic turns of events that overtake him as a young man are, to a great extent, the outworkings of his faulty upbringing. At the same time, they work together to drive home the novel's underlying theme: the illusory, undependable nature of the world in which we live and the call to seek, beyond the outward and the ephemeral, that which is inward and enduring. The narrative, full of pathos, draws the reader unwittingly into a vicarious experience of Kamil's agonies and ecstasies. As such, it is a specimen of Mahfouz's prose at its finest.
Author : Muḥammad al-Mansī Qandīl
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774161896
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Moon Over Samarqand written by Muḥammad al-Mansī Qandīl and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through Central Asia and beyond, Moon over Samarqand is the story of one Egyptian's quest for the truth. Ali's travel brings him into encounters with the Uzbekistan of today, yesterday, and once upon a time. His tale embraces many tales-those of his confounding taxi driver, of Islamic activists, and of the criminal underworld as well as stories of struggles against authoritarianism in Egypt. The novel shows diverse historical and modern connections between Central Asia and the Arab world. It also explores power struggles between opposition currents and governments since the Uzbeki Soviet era and Egypt's Nasser period.
Author : Yusuf Idris
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972045
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)
Download or read book City of Love and Ashes written by Yusuf Idris and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic novel from one of the great contemporary writers of Egypt and the Middle East Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade to fight for freedom, independence, and national self-esteem. Fawziya is a woman with a mission too, keen to support the cause. Among the ashes of the city love may grow, but at a time of national struggle what place do personal feelings have beside the greater love for a shackled homeland? In this finely crafted novel, Yusuf Idris, best known as the master of the Arabic short story, brings to life not only some of the most human characters in modern Arabic fiction but the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a national consciousness focused on liberation.
Author : ممدوح، عالية
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774249419
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Loved Ones written by ممدوح، عالية and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends gather at the bedside of Suhaila, who lies in a coma in a Paris hospital, and tell stories that bring her alive.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307793850
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Karnak Cafe written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One day, amid reports of a wave of arrests, three of the students disappear: the excitable Hilmi, his friend Ismail, and Ismail's beautiful girlfriend Zaynab. When they return months later, they are apparently unharmed and yet subtly and profoundly changed. It is only years later, after their lives have been further shattered, that the narrator pieces together the young people's horrific stories and learns how the government used them against one another. In a riveting final chapter, their torturer himself enters the Café and sits among his former victims, claiming a right to join their society of the disillusioned. Now translated into English for the first time, Naguib Mahfouz's tale of the insidious effects of government-sanctioned torture and the suspension of rights and freedoms in a time of crisis is shockingly contemporary.
