The Mahfouz Dialogs by Al-Ghitani, Gamal

The Mahfouz Dialogs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789774161278)

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The Mahfouz Dialogs by Al-Ghitani, Gamal

The Mahfouz Dialogs

$24.95
The Mahfouz Dialogs by Al-Ghitani, Gamal

The Mahfouz Dialogs

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 out 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.

Author: Gamal Al-Ghitani
ISBN-10: 9774161270
ISBN-13: 9789774161278
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 259
By Gamal Al-Ghitani
By Gamal Al-Ghitani
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Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, literary editor, political commentator, and public intellectual. He published over a dozen novels, including Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004) and The Zafarani Files (AUC Press, 2009), as well as several collections of short stories. He was also founding editor of the literary magazine, Akhbar al-adab (1993-2011). He was awarded the Egyptian State Prize for the Novel (1980), the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France (1987), and the Egyptian State Prize for Literature (2007). In 2015, he received the Nile Award in Literature, Egypt's highest literary honor.

Humphrey Davies has translated some thirty book-length works from Arabic, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, and is a two-time winner of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. He took his degrees from Cambridge University and the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Cairo.

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