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Naguib Mahfouz The Centennial Year Naguib Mahfouz was born on 11 December 1911, Now, in December 2011, the AUC Press celebrates in the old Gamaliya quarter of Cairo, and died in the centenary of the birth of Naguib Mahfouz with a Cairo on 30 August 2006 at the age of 94. His first completely new translation of one of his best-loved novel, Khufu’s Wisdom, was published in 1939; his novels, Midaq Alley (see page 2), and the Mahfouz last, The Coffeehouse, appeared in 1988. He wrote Centennial Library (see page 3), containing all his thirty-three other novels, and fifteen collections of translated works in a special edition of 20 hard- short stories, as well as autobiographical works, bound volumes. numerous screenplays, and newspaper columns. When an attempt on his life in 1994—he was 43 works by Naguib Mahfouz attacked outside his home by a religious fanatic— available from the AUC Press: left him able to write only with great difficulty for Adrift on the Nile • Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth half an hour a day—he wrote the very short fictions Arabian Nights and Days • Autumn Quail that were published as The Dreams. The Beggar • The Beginning and the End In 1988 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Before the Throne • Cairo Modern Literature. The Swedish Academy of Letters, in its The Cairo Trilogy • Children of the Alley citation for the prize, noted that Mahfouz “through The Coffeehouse • The Day the Leader Was Killed works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic, The Dreams • Dreams of Departure now evocatively ambiguous—has formed an Arabic Echoes of an Autobiography • The Final Hour narrative art that applies to all mankind.” The Harafish • Heart of the Night The American University in Cairo Press pub- In the Time of Love • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma lished the first Mahfouz translation, Miramar, in Karnak Café • Khan al-Khalili • Khufu’s Wisdom 1978, and in 1985 signed a comprehensive publish- Life’s Wisdom • Love in the Rain • Midaq Alley ing agreement with the Nobel laureate, thus becom- The Mirage • Miramar • Mirrors ing his primary English-language publisher as well Morning and Evening Talk as his worldwide agent for all translation rights. Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber There are now some 600 editions in 40 languages of Palace of Desire • Palace Walk • Respected Sir his works published or licensed by the AUC Press Rhadopis of Nubia • The Search throughout the world. The Press recently completed The Seventh Heaven • Sugar Street the publication of all Naguib Mahfouz’s novels in Thebes at War • The Thief and the Dogs English, and now has 43 volumes of the great The Time and the Place writer’s work in print. Voices from the Other World • Wedding Song arabic literature 1 Midaq Alley The Wisdom of Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz From the Works of the Nobel Laureate A Modern Egyptian Novel Edited by Aleya Serour Translated by Humphrey Davies More insights on life’s major themes from the A new translation of one of the Nobel laureate’s Arab world’s only Nobel literature laureate best-known novels With a writing career spanning some seventy years, This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most recognized writ- account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of ers in the world. His study of philosophy at what is medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a will- now Cairo University greatly influenced his works, ful young woman whose ambition to escape the as did his wide readings and his work in the govern- confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a ment and in the Cinema Organization. The Wisdom pageant of other vivid characters, from the café of Naguib Mahfouz, like the earlier Life’s Wisdom, is owner who likes boys to the man who creates a unique collection of quotations selected from the maimed beggars and from the young man with the great author’s works, offering philosophical insights faithful heart to the rake and the pimp, fleshes out on themes such as childhood, youth, love, marriage, the picture of a society in crisis and transition. war, freedom, death, the supernatural, the afterlife, Though the novel is set during the Second World the soul, immortality, and many other subjects that War, the characters’ alienation from the prevailing take us through life’s journey. political system and the desire of many of them to escape the economic and social stagnation of the Aleya Serour is the editor of Naguib Mahfouz: Life’s alley give the work an unexpectedly up-to-date fla- Wisdom from the Works of the Nobel Laureate (AUC Press, vor.