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The Mahfouz dialogs

Author: غيطاني، جمال. ; Jamāl Ghīṭānī; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Humphrey T Davies
Publisher: Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching over almost half a century." "Mahfouz was a pivotal figure not only in world literature (through being awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 he became the first writer  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Diaries
Anecdotes
Named Person: Jamāl Ghīṭānī; Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: غيطاني، جمال. ; Jamāl Ghīṭānī; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Humphrey T Davies
ISBN: 9774161270 9789774161278
OCLC Number: 173807514
Language Note: In English.
Notes: Translation of: al-Majālis al-maḥfūẓīyah.
"First published in Arabic in 2006 as al-Majalis al-mahfuziya by Dar El Shorouk"--T.p. verso.
Description: xx, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Other Titles: Majālis al-maḥfūẓīyah.
Responsibility: Gamal al-Ghitani ; translated by Humphrey Davies.

Abstract:

"The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching over almost half a century." "Mahfouz was a pivotal figure not only in world literature (through being awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 he became the first writer in Arabic to win a mass audience), but also in his own society, where he vastly enhanced the image of the writer in the eyes of the public and encapsulated - as the victim of a savage attack on his life by an Islamist in 1994 - the struggle between pluralism, tolerance, and secularism on the one hand and extremist Islam." "Moderated by Gamal al-Ghitani, a writer of a younger generation who shared a common background with Mahfouz (al-Ghitani also grew up in medieval Cairo) and felt a vast personal empathy for the writer despite their sometimes different views, these exchanges throw new light on Mahfouz's life, the creation of his novels, and literary Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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