ON ART, LITERATURE AND HISTORY ESSAYS

Naguib Mahfouz

Translated by Aran Byrne

This book brings together early, little-known and till-now untranslated non-fiction by the Egyptian author and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The works selected range across diverse terrain: the literatures of Anton Chekhov and Taha Hussein, the women’s movement in Arab countries, the influence of science on modernity, and more. Mahfouz’s essays provide a glimpse of the writer’s agile mind, as well as of the changing social landscape of Egypt.

speaking tiger, 224 pages, RS. 599