“Mahfouz presents us with a different concept of the world and makes it real. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of fiction.” - Los Angeles Times

“Mahfouz’s work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. His work is imbued with love for Egypt and its people, but it is also utterly honest and unsentimental.” - Washington Post “Throughout Naguib Mahfouz’s fiction there is a pervasive sense of metaphor, of a literary artist who is using his fiction to speak directly and unequivocally to the condition of his country. “The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly in Mahfouz’s work as the streets of London were conjured by Dickens.” - Newsweek “Naguib Mahfouz is 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 “He is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romain.” - London Review of Books “As a citizen Naguib Mahfouz sees civility and the continuity of a transnational, abiding, Egyptian personality in his work as perhaps surviving the debilitating processes of conflict and historical degeneration which he, more than anyone else I have read, has so powerfully depicted.” -Edward Said “One of the greatest creative talents in the realm of the novel in the world.” -Nadine Gordimer A story without a beginning or an ending.Works by Nagib Mahfouz include: Old Egypt

The Cairo Trilogy is available at most locally based bookstores. It is a superb book and an essential read for anyone curious about Egyptian history or Arab culture.

With the coming of modern ages, this final volume most clearly explores traditions in a changing world. The conclusion of the Egyptian family we have now followed from the WWI to the independence of Egypt, brings many changes and introspection from the characters we first met as young children. In October 2009 we gathered to discuss Sugar Street, the final volume of Naguib Mahfouz’s famous Cairo Trilogy.

Sugar street by naguib mahfouz