Books By
Naguib Mahfouz
The first of the three books in Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz unraveling the internal struggle in the al-Jawad family. With a traditional patriarchal-believing father, the sons and daughters of this family are forced on inheriting traditions. Against their father's will, they marry outside of faith, regain women's right, and acquire jobs that no women or men are supposed to.
The second of the Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy that begins the struggle of children of al-Jawad against the traditional patriarchal father on social rights. The novel reveals the path in which those children chose to rebel against denomination, and at the same time society advances to modern world networks.
3. Sugar Street
The final book of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy of the epic al-Jawad family's struggle. At the climax of the book, Egypt falls into a dramatic globalization influence as the family tumbles through dramatic change: one grandson becomes Communist, one Muslim fundamentalist, and one lover of a powerful politician.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
Naguib Mahfouz is a successful Egyptian writer and novelist. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1988 for complex and conveying work of valuable, humanistic ideas and pioneering modern Arabic literature, poetic meanwhile thought-provoking.
