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- Midaq Alley (1947) is a historical realist novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, the 1988 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.
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Midaq Alley (Arabic: زقاق المدق, romanized: Zuqāq al-Midaqq) [1] is a 1947 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, first published in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as a microcosm of the world.
Aug 1, 2022 · One of Mahfouz’s most critically-acclaimed works, Midaq Alley tells the story of an isolated, dull, small alley in Cairo during World War II, exhibiting the lives of different characters and their reactions to the on-going war.
Naguib Mahfouz’s “Midaq Alley” is a captivating novel set in 1940s Cairo, Egypt. The story follows the lives of various characters living in the eponymous alley and explores themes of love, greed, and social class.
He has not realised that changes are coming and how to adapt to them. Mahfouz’s tale works well, because of the characters and because Mahfouz is able to tell a tale which, while ultimately offering little hope, does offers us a glimpse of the real world in the alley.
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- Mahfouz’s Perennial Quest
- The Pertinence of The Past
- Power and Social Issues
- The Children of Gebelawi
- The Enigmatic and The Absurd
- The Court of Osiris
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by Anders Hallengren* “I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.” – Naguib Mahfouz,Nobel Lecture
Arabic literature can be traced back almost two thousand years. Poetry has always been its most prominent genre, but there is also an ancient tradition of narrative that expresses itself in a wealth of different oral forms. In Egypt, the collection of stories called The Arabian Nights,a series of tales of Indian, Iranian, and Iraqi origin, was brou...
Many Egyptians know the stories by Mahfouz from the cinema. This fact brings the central facets of the continuation of the so-called Renaissance into immediate focus. The introduction of new genres and new media provided new means of expression, reflection, and creativity, and, in the opposite direction, influenced the creators of literary arts and...
Naguib Mahfouz started his career as a writer by exploring ancient Egyptian history. He did not do so to understand the contemporary scene, still less was it to criticise it in a covert fashion. His aim was to seek the identity of his own country in the space-time of his existence and the sphere of his Self. He also obviously sought for a reliable ...
The series of historical books was followed by records of modern Cairo, the Khan al-Khalili(1945), the author turning abruptly but quite naturally to his own era. The novel describes the life and final tragedy of a family which, during the war, was forced to move to a less fashionable part of the city. The narrator-seeker walks freely and unhindere...
In actual fact, a similar theme runs through Awlad haratina (“Children of our quarter”, 1959; translated as Children of Gebelawi), which created the greatest stir in Mahfouz’s life, and determined his fate in a violent way. When the rich and powerful Gebelawi banishes his children he casts a spell on his family in doing so, as if he were expelling ...
It is easy, all too easy, to descry literary traces of the chaotic world of his life and times. There are many stories of modern decline and lack of order and confidence, but they are also literary experiments in modern prose genres. In Tharthara fawq al-Nil (translated as Adrift on the Nile), 1966, a complete opposite to Meriamun’s floating along ...
The author’s concern with power is obvious, but his main question is the following: What have the leaders of Egypt – pharaohs, sultans, khedives, kings, presidents, fathers, invaders, occupants – done for (or done to) his country? In this comparative study of politics, focused both on the past and on the present, parallels and repetitions stand out...
Two years later, Naguib Mahfouz published one of his most intriguing and perhaps most revealing books; his novel on Akhenaten, al-‘A’ish fi-l-haqiqa (1985), “Dweller in Truth”. Adopting the narrative method of multiple narrators, the novelist approaches a well-known enigma, the identity of Akhenaten, the author of beautiful hymns to the sun and the...
NAJIB MAHFFUZ'S MIDAQ ALLEY: A SOCIO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS Marius Deeb Although Zuqaq al-Midaq (Midaq Alley) has been widely read and duly appreciated since its publication in 1947, it has been over-shadowed by Najrb MahfZuz's later novels such as the famous trilogy (al-Thulathiyya). Consequently, there has been a tendency among
Midaq Alley (1995) looks at the intersecting lives of residents of a close-knit neighborhood in Mexico City. Based on the Egyptian novel by Naguib Mahfouz, this story follows a young woman...
