GREAT writers often seem to haunt their cities. Joyce and Kafka remain ghostly figures on the streets of Dublin and Prague, and the elfin presence of Borges is still glimpsed, through cigarette smoke ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic ...

A previously unknown cache of 40 handwritten Naguib Mahfouz short stories were recently unearthed by the journalist and literary critic Mohamed Shoair, who found them in a box of papers given to him ...

The Supreme Council for Culture have published three documents commemorating the centennial of Naguib Mahfouz On the occasion of the Arabic Novel gathering, which took place in mid-December, the ...

Mohamed Shoir’s analysis and retelling of the context and reception of Naguib Mahfouz’s The Children of Gebelawi is sure to leave a lasting mark on Egyptian and Arab literary criticism Of the many ...

It has been a decade since the death of Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt's most famous novelist and the only Arab writer to have won a Nobel Prize, and yet he still dominates the Egyptian literary scene Young ...

Arabian Nights and Days, by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (Anchor Books, $12). “At the heart of `Arabian Nights and Days,’ an enthralling novel by Egyptian Nobel Prize winner ...

New never-before-seen handwritten memoirs by the only Arab Nobel laureate writer, Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), will be published in a new book, according to a statement by the late novelist’s daughter.

Egyptian Nobel prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz’s later collections of reflections and dreams could be seen as the culmination of his entire literary output, writes Tarek Osman The Egyptian Nobel ...

Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died today at the age of 94. I met him in December. He was at the back of a bar in a Cairo hotel on the Nile, and in ...