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أمام العرش (حوار بين الحكام)

Najīb Maḥfūẓ

Noveller. Titelnovellen skildrer en families vanskelige liv med en tyrannisk og voldelig far, der formår at ødelægge deres liv

القرار الاخير

الباقى من الزمن ساعة

"Awlad haratina is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. It was originally published in 1959 in serialised form, in the Cairo daily Al-Ahram. It was met with severe opposition from religious authorities, and publication in the form of a book was banned in Egypt. The story recreates the tied history of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), allegorised against the setting of an imaginary 19th century Cairene neighborhood. Gabalawi being an allegory for religion in general, the first four sections retell, in succession, the stories of: Adam and how he was favored by Gabalawi over the latter's other sons, including Satan/Iblis, Idris, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Families of each son settle in different parts of the alley, symbolising Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The protagonist of the book's fifth section is Arafa, who symbolises modern science and, significantly, comes after all prophets, while all of their followers claim Arafa as one of their own"--Wikipedia.

رواية

أولاد حارتنا

نقاش، رجاء

Rajāʼ Naqqāsh

صفحات من مذكراته وأضواء جديدة على أدبه وحياته

When Othman Bayyumi is employed as a grade 8 clerk, he is just one of many new employees welcomed by the Director General. But his ambition to attain that lofty position himself is no idle fancy: for him achieving promotion and serving the government become a religious obsession, "the path of glory". So he studies after hours, does extra translation work, cultivates his superiors, saves like a miser, and spurns politics, climbing steadily towards his goal. It is only desire for women which can draw him out, but he denies himself love and marriage until it is almost too late. Respected Sir (Hadrat al-Muhtaram, 1975) is an intense psychological study which never leaves it not particularly attractive central subject, but Mahfouz makes it almost into a fairy-tale, told with a light and (even in translation) inimitable prose. It is effortlessly readable, with dramatic episodes covered in short chapters which flow easily one after the other, just like the years of Othman's life, and the result is an absolute gem of a novel.

حضرة المحترم

رأيت فيما يرى النائم

Seif Wanli

Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahlouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life - a writer very like Mahlouz himself. And accompanying each vignette is a portrait of the character by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli. Mirrors also reflects the recent history of Egypt, its political movements, its leaders, its wars, and its peace, all of which affect the lives of friends and enemies and of the narrator himself.

Mirrors

قصر الشوق

"The time is 1942, the Second World War is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz's novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo's colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will never bomb such a famously religious part of the city, they leave their more elegant neighborhood and seek safety among the crowded alleyways, busy cafés, and ancient mosques of the Khan. This new edition with re-designed cover is part of a special project to embrace, celebrate, and honor the literary legacy of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz." --

خان الخليلي

قشتمر

المؤلفات الكاملة

أفراح القبة

Naguib Mahfouz

Karnak Cafe

فصول مختارة : الرواية، الاقصوصة، التمثيلية

دنيا نجيب محفوظ

Pension Miramar engages a fellaha (a young peasant woman), who ran away from her village to avoid a forced marriage. She becomes the centre point of the attention of all the pension's inhabitants, because of her simplicity and natural beauty, but also for her ambition to get out of her traditional role of maid without education. The fellaha's battle to escape her humble fortune is mingled with her emotional love life and the more or less violent advances of some residents. The evolving story is told from (here) four different angles (persons), revealing slowly the real motives behind the different clashes. This novel contains some typical Mahfouz characters, like the career man, the wealthy playboy or the impostor ('employed by one master, serving secretly another'). Some themes are also familiar: 'If you have power, you have everything', or 'Everyone else around us behaves as if they didn't believe in God's existence'. The novel is also a reflection on the failure of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952: 'But was there an alternative? Only the Communists or the Muslim Brotherhood.'

ميرامار

ملحمة الحرافيش

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