From ArabLit Quarterly: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’
2021-09-06
“Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.”Continue Reading
From the Archives: ‘Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz’
2021-06-22
In honor of the “Kitchen” issue of ArabLit Quarterly, a re-run from 2016, about the history of sharkasiyya, a dish important in Mahfouz’s Palace Walk. This piece also ran on kitchening modernity: By Anny Gaul In the first volume of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk), we meet a family whoseContinue Reading
Naguib Mahfouz Day: New Reads and More for the Author’s 109th
2020-12-11
“More from 2020 in the afterlife of Naguib Mahfouz.”Continue Reading
Two Books Translated from Arabic Make 2020 NTA Prose Longlist
2020-09-03
Yesterday, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the longlists for the 2020 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose. Two works translated from Arabic — a novel and a collection of interlinked short stories — made the twelve-book longlist for prose.Continue Reading
6 Questions on ‘After the Nobel’: Nonfiction by Naguib Mahfouz
2020-07-29
“He was an all-round writer with a strong social conscience, and after seeing how he reflected on society and its ills through the indirect allegorical lens of fiction I thought it would be interesting to see how he addressed the issues that concerned him through the more direct medium of a regular newspaper column.”Continue Reading
Lock-in Limited Release: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’
2020-05-11
Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.Continue Reading
Naguib Mahfouz: New Reads and More for the Author’s 108th
2019-12-11
Despite the passing of Naguib Mahfouz in 2006, plenty happened in the ongoing life of his work.Continue Reading
Emily Drumsta on Translating Mahfouz’s ‘Sufi Noir’
2019-07-22
“I was trying to explore what I’ve been calling ‘Mahfouz’s Sufi Noir,’ to see how and why he was drawn to both crime-writing and Sufi storytelling and the same time. When I read ‘Culprit Unknown,’ I couldn’t believe how much it was like a detective story—and that it hadn’t been translated yet!”Continue Reading
On Publication Day: Are the ‘Lost’ Mahfouz Stories Worth Reading?
2019-07-01
“We can’t know what Mahfouz intended to do with the fictions collected into ‘The Quarter’. He might have considered them complete and ready for publication, or they might have been the seeds of a new novel.”Continue Reading
