Another Year in the Afterlife of Naguib Mahfouz
“In a curious NYTimes ‘Bookends’ piece this July, Francince Prose argues that Naguib Mahfouz should be added to ‘the’ canon.”
Naguib Mahfouz
What’s Wrong with 35 Naguib Mahfouz Translations?
To Arab readers Mahfouz does in fact have a distinctive voice, which displays a remarkable mastery of language yet does not call attention to itself. But in English he sounds like each of his translators, most of whom (with one or two exceptions) are not stylists and, I am sorry to say, appear not to have completely understood what he is really about.
Happy Birthday, Naguib Mahfouz: The Laureate Reflects on His Anniversary and His Life
Tonight, AUC Press will celebrate the life and writings of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz by presenting the annual Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
My Friend the Sheep (Eid Memories from Naguib Mahfouz)
The following passage is from Naguib Mahfouz’s Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber: Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001. The section is titled, as above, “My Friend the Sheep.”
Happy Eid (Memories from Naguib Mahfouz)
The following passage is from Naguib Mahfouz’s Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber: Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001. The section is titled, as above, “Happy Eid.”
Ramadan Kareem from Naguib Mahfouz
From early boyhood I never studied during the holy month of Ramadan, although this was the month during which I read more than at any other time. My reading, however, […]
Summer Reading Challenge Review: Miramar, by Naguib Mahfouz
I just noticed that, over at By the Firelight, Paul Doyle has posted a review of his summer reading challenge selection, Naguib Mahfouz’s Miramar. (Miramar was a selection both by […]
(New York) Publisher: ‘Arabic After All Is a Controversial Language’
I have an unhealthy fascination with translational gossip. So when I was reading Edward Said’s 1989 afterword to Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain—an afterword I don’t like, as it fixates on […]
Reading Challenge Update: Shakir Mustafa’s Top 5
Shakir Mustafa (not, you know, Mustafa Shakir) has finally turned in his reading challenge picks. Mustafa is the editor and translator of the excellent Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology. I […]