Naguib Mahfouz, R.I.P.

Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian playwright and screenwriter who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature and was widely regarded as the Arab world’s foremost novelist, died today, Reuters and The Associated Press reported. He was 94.

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Read Edward Said on Mahfouz and “the cruelty of memory.”

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