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Subject: Naguib Mahfouz
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Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006 ), Egyptian author, the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Born in Cairo, Mahfouz was educated at the Egyptian University (now Cairo University). The youngest of seven children of a lower-rank civil servant, he acquired a sound knowledge of both medieval and modern Arabic literature while still in high school. As a philosophy student at the university, he contributed articles to professional journals. To improve his English, he translated James Baikie's Ancient Egypt (1912) into Arabic (published 1932). u can download the full file from files. *
