Naguib Mahfouz

In a compact room, no more than three square meters in size, with a backdrop of walls covered plastered by…

Egypt’s culture minister said that the Naguib Mahfouz museum will be ready to start receiving visitors in December, a step…

An Egyptian member of parliament (MP) said that late Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz should have been put on trial…

Egyptian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Ahmed Zewail died suddenly on Tuesday, leaving his family and friends in shock. Zewail…

The friendship between Awad Bahr, the manager of Ali Baba cafe, and the deceased Nobel-laureate Naguib Mahfouz started when Bahr…

After 42 years serving patrons, a section of Ali Baba, a cafe overlooking Tahrir Square that attracted writers and poets,…

The Japanese translation of Naguib Mahfouz’s famous trilogy has been shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the translation category,…

On 3 March 1978, Egyptian literary pioneer Tawfiq al-Hakim wrote in state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, “Arabs now have money and men.…

We all learn about cities through fiction, from the experiences of the stories' narrators and protagonists. Even when we live…

Sixty years after the 1952 revolution, the legacy of both President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his regime remain fraught territory.…