Adrift On The Nile

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525431619

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Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist—an “alarmingly serious person”—joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group’s harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.

Author : Marcus Youssef
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106019489266

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Adrift by Marcus Youssef Pdf

A group of urban Egyptian hipsters debates secularism and "fundamentalism" with tragic consequences. Cast of 4 women and 6 men.

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781408152782

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Casting the Gods Adrift by Geraldine McCaughrean Pdf

A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for all of them...

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617973154

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The Coffeehouse by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time 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 old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian, and classically Mahfouzian, quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur. The Coffeehouse is a powerful and timeless novel of loss and memory from one of Egypt's most celebrated literary masters.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525431602

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The Journey of Ibn Fattouma by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through a series of very different lands--realms where the moon is worshipped, where marriage does not exist, where kings are treated like gods, and where freedom, toleration, and justice are alternately held as the highest goods. All of these places, however, are inevitably marred by the specter of war, and Ibn Fattouma finds himself continually driven onward, ever seeking. Like the protagonists of A Pilgrim's Progress and Gulliver's Travels, Naguib Mahfouz's hero travels not through any recognizable historical landscape, but through timeless aspects of human possibility.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Life
ISBN : 9774160207

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Life ,s wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

With a writing career spanning some seventy years, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most recognized writers in the world. His study of philosophy at what is now Cairo University greatly influenced his works, as did his wide readings and his work in the government and in the Cinema Organization. Life's Wisdom is a unique collection of quotations selected from the great author's works, offering philosophical insights on themes such as childhood, youth, love, marriage, war, freedom, death, the supernatural, the afterlife, the soul, immortality, and many other subjects that take us through life's journey. Naguib Mahfouz's works abound with words of wisdom. As Nadine Gordimer states in her foreword to his Echoes of an Autobiography: "The essence of a writer's being is in the work, not the personality, though the world values things otherwise, and would rather see what the writer looks like on television than read where he or she really is to be found: in the writings." In keeping with Gordimer's comment, Mahfouz's true nature can be found in his writing. The quotations included here offer a broad, yet profound, insight into the writer's philosophy gained through a life's journey of experience and writing.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307483614

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The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt. The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa. The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, "formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Arabic fiction
ISBN : 0385403364

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Adrift on the Nile by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 977424673X

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Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber : reflections of a Nobel laureate : 1994-2001 : from conversations with Mohamed Salmawy by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

"This volume, published on the occasion of the Nobel laureate's 90th birthday, brings together a selection of the more personal, reflective pieces that have appeared over the past seven years. They reveal a writer concerned as always with the human condition, with his own thought processes, and with the craft of writing, offering rare insights into the way a great writer thinks and works. The range and quality of writing is even more remarkable when one remembers that since a nearly fatal knife attack in 1994, the injuries Mahfouz sustained, combined with his failing eyesight, have made it almost impossible for him to write. But as a man who has devoted his life to the written word, Mahfouz now prepares his weekly articles through conversations with his friend Mohamed Salmawy, who has selected and gathered the pieces in this collection.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525431664

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Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall featuring a corrupt young bureaucrat, Isa ad-Dabbagh, who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt. The conflict between his emotional instincts and his gradual intellectual acceptance of the Revolution forms the framework for a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait that is ultimately an optimistic one in which the two will peacefully coexist.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing (Tm)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781541544000

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Miriam at the River by Jane Yolen Pdf

Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525432029

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The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize—winning writer’s masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain’s occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons–the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad’s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz’s vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. Throughout the trilogy, the family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780691203195

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The Invention of Religion by Jan Assmann Pdf

A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God's chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world's faiths. First introduced in Exodus, new ideas of faith, revelation, and above all covenant transformed basic assumptions about humankind’s relationship to the divine and became the bedrock of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617973192

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Love in the Rain by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

A vibrant novel of memorable characters who search for happiness and true love, cope with the bitterness that results from love's betrayal, and embrace new beginnings. 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, experience the effects of this calamitous event. The war and its casualties, as well as people's foibles and the tragedies they create for themselves, raise existential questions that cannot easily be answered. In a frank, sensitive treatment of everything from patriotism to prostitution, homosexuality and lesbianism, Love in the Rain presents a struggle between "old" and "new" in the realm of moral values that leaves the future in doubt. Through the dilemmas and heartbreaks faced by his protagonists, Mahfouz exposes the hypocrisy of those who condemn any breach of sexual morality while turning a blind eye to violence, corruption, and oppression, double standards as applied to men's and women's sexuality, and the folly of an exclusive focus on sexual morals without reference to other aspects of human character.

Author : Muḥammad Rabīʻ (Novelist)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789774167843

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Otared by Muḥammad Rabīʻ (Novelist) Pdf

2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun. As Cairo becomes a foul cauldron of drugs, sex, and senseless violence, Otared finally understands his country's fate. In this unflinching and grisly novel, Mohammad Rabie envisages a grim future for Egypt, where death is the only certainty.