Rhadopis Of Nubia

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400076680

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Rhadopis of Nubia by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty. While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lifts one of her golden sandals and drops it into the lap of the Pharaoh Merenra II. Upon hearing Rhadopis described as “beauty itself,” the young pharaoh decides to return Rhadopis’s sandal himself. When the two meet, they are immediately seized by a passion far stronger than their ability to resist. Thus begins a love affair that makes them the envy of Egyptian society. But blinded by their love and the extravagant attentions they lavish on each other, they ignore the growing resentment of the world around them in this extraordinary tale of star-crossed love.

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:704515055

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Rhadopis of Nubia by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307491886

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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels—published in an omnibus edition for the first time—that form an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy. Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his rule and the possibility that his daughter has fallen in love with the man prophesied to be his successor. Rhadopis of Nubia is the unforgettable story of the charismatic young Pharoah Merenra II and the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis, whose love affair makes them the envy of all Egyptian society. And Thebes at War tells the epic story of Egypt's victory over the Asiatic foreigners who dominated the country for two centuries. Three Novels of Ancient Egypt gives us a dazzling tapestry of ancient Egypt and reminds us of the remarkable artistry of Naguib Mahfouz.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307427502

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Rhadopis of Nubia by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty. While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lifts one of her golden sandals and drops it into the lap of the Pharaoh Merenra II. Upon hearing Rhadopis described as “beauty itself,” the young pharaoh decides to return Rhadopis’s sandal himself. When the two meet, they are immediately seized by a passion far stronger than their ability to resist. Thus begins a love affair that makes them the envy of Egyptian society. But blinded by their love and the extravagant attentions they lavish on each other, they ignore the growing resentment of the world around them in this extraordinary tale of star-crossed love.

Author : Haggag Hassan Oddoul
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774162161

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Nights of Musk by Haggag Hassan Oddoul Pdf

These stories speak of the demise of traditional Nubian life and culture. While the temples of Abu Simbel were relocated before dam-building, the drowning of the ancient heartland of the Nubian people along the banks of the Nile went largely unnoticed. Haggag Oddoul documents the personal tragedy of social transformation.

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:655188101

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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426512

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Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates. But in the face of the inexorable attraction between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, Khufu’s beautiful daughter, Khufu must consider not only his personal ambition and the opposing decree of the heavens, but also how the wisdom he prides himself on as a ruler will guide him in determining the fate of his daughter’s heart. Translated by Raymond Stock

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429674

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Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history–ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern Egypt for two hundred years. With a visit from a court official and a provocative insult, the southern pharaoh’s long simmering resentment boils over, leading him to commit himself and his heirs to an epic struggle for the throne. Filled with the grand clash of armies, staggering defeats, daring escapes, and glorious victories, and written at a time when Egypt was again under the sway of foreign powers, Thebes at War is a resounding call to remember Egypt’s long and noble history.

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : NYPL:33433082476536

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Nubia and Abyssinia by Michael Russell Pdf

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307780850

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Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois. Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened to women and heady new philosophies imported from Europe are stirring up debates among the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student who is determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of principles secret from his idealistic friends. When he finds that there are no jobs for those without connections, out of desperation he agrees to participate in an elaborate deception. But what begins as a mere strategy for survival soon becomes much more for both Mahgub and his partner in crime, an equally desperate young woman named Ihsan. As they make their way through Cairo's lavish high society their precarious charade begins to unravel and the terrible price of Mahgub's Faustian bargain becomes clear. Translated by William M. Hutchins

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,7 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,محفوظ، نجيب،
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789774163869

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In the Time of Love by Naguib Mahfouz,محفوظ، نجيب، Pdf

One of the Nobel laureates most intriguing novels, translated for the first time into English.