![]() The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction." - Los Angeles Times Book Review, Praise for Naguib Mahfouz: "The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom." - Vanity Fair "A Dickens of the Cairo cafes." - Newsweek "The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue to dazzle our eyes." - The Washington Post "Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera." - The New York Times Book Review "Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera." - The New York Times Book Review "Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. Her son should not despise the place where he was born and raised. Kirsha, Midaq Alley is a peaceful place to live. She regards it as madness, or that the devil has deceived her son (Mahfouz 59). ![]() ![]() The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as a microcosm of the world. Hussain Kirsha, his son, despises Midaq Alley. Praise for Naguib Mahfouz: "The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom." - Vanity Fair "A Dickens of the Cairo cafes." - Newsweek "The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue to dazzle our eyes." - The Washington Post "Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. Midaq Alley (Arabic:, romanized: Zuqq al-Midaqq) is a 1947 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, first published in English in 1966. ![]()
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