Profiles

The human side of Naguib Mahfouz: his most mysterious aspect

Awareness Editor

9 April 2018 1 min read Updated 5 September 2026

Naguib Mahfouz months before his death - Wikipedia

Najib Mahfouz

TagsUmm Kulthum Naguib Mahfouz Tawfiq Al-Hakim Nobel Prize Sayyed Qutb Naguib Mahfouz

About the author

Awareness Editor

A writer at Awareness for Research and Development.

More from this author

Abdelkader Al-Jazairi… the prince of resistance to the French colonizers on the African continent

2 May 2021

House of Cards…a series exposing internal American political corruption

2 May 2021

Books

Standard Arabic, dialects and popular creativity: Arab culture through the eyes of Dr. Mustafa Attia Gomaa

2 May 2021

Osaka Castle: Japan’s most famous towering landmark

2 May 2021

Stories and novels

“The Lulu Ward”: Naguib Mahfouz’s opposition to Nasser’s militarism

28 Jan 2019

Muhammad Jalal Kishk… Immortality through the pen in the style of Sayyid Qutb

25 Nov 2018

Scientific conferences

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine: new hope for humanity in the fight against cancer

30 Oct 2018

Abdelkader Al-Jazairi… the prince of resistance to the French colonizers on the African continent

2 May 2021

The passing of the eloquent farmer Abdel Rahman Shukri: the farmers’ voice in the revolution’s parliament

20 Jan 2021

Shattering the illusion of army support for the coup: the passing of Major General Abdel Hamid Omran

15 Jan 2021