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Drawing on the characters and the spirit of the classic A Thousand and One Nights, Arabian Nights and Days is a significant departure for Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Though he...

Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in...

A novel and sixteen short stories make up this latest offering by Egypt's bestselling novelist as he reveals with skill and detachment the minute stitches of pain that hold together...

Awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Prize and the Nour Prize for Best Female Work in Arabic for Memory in the Flesh, Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi is a unique voice in Arabic...

Both revolution and romance are at the heart of Return of the Spirit, first published in Arabic in 1933.The story of a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family, ending...

A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published...