Gamal Al-Ghitani

Gebundenes Buch

The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz

Beschreibung

In this special new and expanded edition of the bestselling book first published in 1999, photographer Britta Le Va guides us through the back streets and alleys of Naguib Mahfouz, to produce a collection of outstanding visual images of the historic city, while novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the great man around the streets of Gamaliya.

Autor

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. Britta Le Va is a photographer based in New York. Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, literary editor, political commentator, and public intellectual. He published over a dozen novels, including Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004) and The Zafarani Files (AUC Press, 2009), as well as several collections of short stories. He was also founding editor of the literary magazine, Akhbar al-adab (1993-2011). He was awarded the Egyptian State Prize for the Novel (1980), the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France (1987), and the Egyptian State Prize for Literature (2007). In 2015, he received the Nile Award in Literature, Egypt's highest literary honor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 216mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9789774165528
• ISBN-10: 9774165527
• Artikelnr.: 35683333