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Naguib Mahfouz
This article is about the Egyptian novelist.
Respected sir naguib mahfouz biography
For the Egyptian doctor, see Naguib Pasha Mahfouz.
Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (Egyptian Arabic: نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا), IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006), known as Naguib Mahfouz, was an Egyptiannovelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]
He managed to modernize Arabic literature.
He is one of the few writers of Arabic literature who explored themes of existentialism.[2]
Biography
[change | change source]Naguib Mahfouz was born in the Gamaliya quarter of Cairo and was named after Professor Naguib basha Mahfouz (1882-1974), the renowned Coptic physician who delivered him.
In his childhood Mahfouz read extensively. His mother often took him to museums and Egyptian history. later became a major theme in many of his books.
The Egyptian Revolution of 1915 had a strong effect on Mahfouz, although he was at the time onl