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Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz won the 1988 Nobel Prize in literature. In portraying everyday life and its tensions in a changing Egyptian society, he helped establish the genre of the novel in modern Arabic literature.
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Novel; Egypt; Mahfouz, Naguib; Arabic Literature
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