Adrift on the Nile — a Novel of Egypt by Naguib Mahfouz

1/5/2011

I came to Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Adrift on the Nile after having seen the movie of the same name. As …

Wedding Song by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt

12/28/2010

Wedding Song, by Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize winning Egyptian author, was written in 1981 well into his writing life which …

12/20/2010

I wrote last week about an Egyptian novel, Stealth, by Sonallah Ibrahim, which while I liked I felt presented certain …

12/10/2010

Ignorance of Arabic writing in the West might only be exceeded by ignorance of that of any particular nationality in …