The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back by Salmawy, Mohamed

The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789774161254)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back by Salmawy, Mohamed

The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back

$24.95
The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back by Salmawy, Mohamed

The Last Station: Naguib Mahfouz Looking Back

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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In July 2006, at the age of 94, Naguib Mahfouz, the grand old man of Egyptian novels and winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1988, was admitted to hospital after an apparently minor fall sustained in his home in Cairo. Among the few friends allowed regular visits to Mahfouz's hospital bedside was the writer Mohamed Salmawy, former colleague at Al-Ahram newspaper and, following the failed assassination attempt in 1994 when Mahfouz had lost the full use of his right hand, an assistant in recording Mahfouz's late creative output. The Last Station, Mohamed Salmawy's intimate journal of Naguib Mahfouz's final weeks, sparkles with reminiscences of joyful times together and significant events from the great writer's life. Even for those less familiar with the writings of Naguib Mahfouz, it portrays the closeness of two writers from different generations and celebrates the life of an incomparable artist.

Author: Mohamed Salmawy
ISBN-10: 9774161254
ISBN-13: 9789774161254
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2008
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Mohamed Salmawy
By Mohamed Salmawy
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Mohamed Salmawy is an Egyptian playwright, novelist, and poet. He is president of the Writers' Union of Egypt, secretary general of the General Union of Arab Writers, and editor in chief of the leading daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.

English-born Andy Smart and Egyptian Nadia Fouda-Smart lived in Cairo for many years, where they established their own publishing house before moving to London.

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