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Before the Throne
In this extraordinary drama-in-dialogue, Naguib Mahfouz reveals his love for all of Egypt’s extensive history—and his deep knowledge of it. In Before the Throne, he summons nearly sixty of Egypt’s rulers to the afterlif...
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Diary of a Jewish Muslim
A novel about growing up half-Jewish, half-Muslim in an Egypt where Jews were increasingly unwelcome, by the author of Days of Diaspora

Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab–Israel...
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The Coffee house
On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his o...
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Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
Mahfouz returns to a pharaonic setting for this powerful novel that reflects modern sensibilities.

In Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz tells with remarkable insight the story of the ‘...
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Heart of the Night
A classic Mahfouz story exploring themes of marriage across class lines, spirituality, and the harsh realities of a precarious life

Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recently transla...
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Karnak Café
At a Cairo café, a cross-section of Egyptian society, young and old, rich and poor, are drawn together by the quality of its coffee and the allure of its owner, legendary former dancer Qurunfula. When three of the young patr...
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Love in the Rain
A vibrant novel of love, bitterness, and betrayal

Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, Love in the Rain introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, experien...
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Palace of Desire
In this second volume of The Cairo Trilogy, the master storyteller spins a sensual, provocative tale, following the al-Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920s, where increased freedoms prove as troubling as dominat...
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The Beginning and the End
Set in Cairo during World War II, this novel is a masterpiece of human compassion reflecting with sympathy and well-balanced pathos the material, moral, and spiritual problems of an Egyptian family. Suddenly confronted with p...
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The Day the Leader Was Killed
Mahfouz traces the life of a middle-class Cairene family living in the early 1980s helplessly watching as their world rapidly disintegrates in “the kingdom of the corrupt.”

In this breathtakingly compact nov...
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