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	The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
		The Cairo Trilogy is a three-part family saga, centred around al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family -- his wife, his children (three sons and two daughters), and eventually his grandchildren.
		Eventually, however, the old guard is supplanted by the younger generations, and The Cairo Trilogy effectively describes all the bumpy domestic and national transitions.
		The trilogy is very heavy on dialogue, as well as resorting to a considerable amount of interior dialogue (so that one learns what the characters are really thinking, but wouldn't ever dare say).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/mahfouzn/cairo.htm (1611 words)

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		Naguib Mahfouz was born on December 11, 1911, in the old Gamaliya quarter of Cairo, the youngest of seven children in a family of five boys and two girls.
		Naguib Mahfouz died in Cairo on 30 August 2006 at the age of 94, in the presence of his wife Atiya and his daughters Fatma and Umm Kalthum.
		The American University in Cairo Press now publishes 31 volumes of Naguib Mahfouz’s work, including a collection of his Dreams and most recently Life’s Wisdom, an anthology of his thought and philosophy collected from all his previous translated works.
	www.aucpress.com /t-aboutnm.aspx?template=template_naguibmahfouz (1476 words)

	Cairo - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; romanized: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 million people.
		Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.
		Cairo's population exploded, increasing from 374,000 in 1882 to 1,312,000 by 1937.
	www.unipedia.info /Cairo.html (1862 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The trilogy is the result of Mahfouz's systematic study of the major novels of England, France and Russia, and the application of the methods he learned there to the subject matter of his own very different life and times -- the period that saw Egypt's painful emergence
		The trilogy indirectly traces a panorama of a nation's history through close attention to the detail of a family's history.
		And there is perhaps nothing as moving as the chapter-long internal monologue of the matriarch Amina after the death of her husband, the dominant figure of the trilogy.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1992/1992t.html (724 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement \| Representing the nation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The urban space of old and new Cairo is both the setting and the symbol of the clashes of cultural values, which affect many of the inhabitants of this teeming third world metropolis.
		The Cairo Trilogy, which appears in this [Everyman's] edition for the first time as one book, was originally conceived as a single novel, and not as three separate works as it has been produced since it was first published in Arabic in 1956.
		Similarly, the rise of the mother is as carefully implanted in the text, from the time when the children plot to demand her return after she is banished from the house as a result of her egregious act of disobedience and visit to the Shrine, until the time she reigned supreme in her household.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/551/bo1.htm (7170 words)

	Sugar Street (Cairo Trilogy) : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		In the third part of "The Cairo Trilogy", life of the Abd al-Jawad family goes on.
		But in Mahfouz's trilogy, the pace is perfectly matched to the time period.
		In Sugar Street, we are plunged into rapid social changes in Egypt during the thirties and the war -- tremendous upheavals in family structure, in women's roles, in politics, and not surprisingly in the lives of the characters.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/ASIN/0385264704/Sugar_Street_(The_Cairo_Trilogy,_3).html (631 words)

	Arabic Noble Laureate, Naguib Mahfouz
		Cairo, the capital of Egypt, has been referred to as the Jewel of the Orient, the City of the Thousand Minarets, and the Melting Pot of Ancient and Modern Egyptian Civilizations.
		Existing as the largest city in the Middle East and Africa, Cairo is at the center of all routes leading to Asia, Africa, and Europe.
		Greater Cairo extends on the banks of the River Nile to the south of its delta.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/mo&pomo/mahfouz (2362 words)

	Powell's Books - Everyman's Library #248: The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib ...
		The Nobel Prize—winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.
		The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence.
		Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0375413316 (404 words)

	Cruelty of memory (by Edward Said) - Media Monitors Network
		The trilogy is a history of the patriarch El- Sayed Ahmed Abdel-Gawwad and his family over three generations.
		In the trilogy his slowly receding eminence is not simply offstage, but is also being transmuted and devalued through such mundane agencies as Abdel-Gawwad's marriage, his licentious behavior, his children, and changing political involvements.
		The stubbornness and pride with which he has held to the rigour of his work for a half-century, with its refusal to concede to ordinary weakness, is at the very core of what he does as a writer.
	www.mediamonitors.net /edward43.html (1492 words)

	Trials of the Flesh and of the Intellect - The World and I Magazine
		Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy concludes with a focus on the divisive impact of modern ideologies upon one Egyptian family.
		The work portrays developments in the extended family of Ahmad 'Abd al-Jawad, a merchant; their lives are seen to be heavily colored and influenced by the traumatic events suffered by the Egyptian nation itself throughout the period covered.
		Time is seen here, as in the trilogy, as an uncaring enemy of man. For the normal pattern of life in the alley [was] disturbed only occasionally when one of its girls disappeared or one of its men folk was swallowed by the prison.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1992/february/bk14.cfm (3135 words)

	The Fatimids
		Nasir also reports that the great mosques of Cairo were bought and sold by the families of various rulers.
		The caliph's family, for example, had purchased from the now indigent descendants of both Amr and Ibn Tulun the two great mosques bearing their names (mosques could be passed down within families).
		Cairo was, as it is today, a kaleidoscopic city of many races, cultures, and heritages.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/fatimids.htm (1970 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Plain Talk
		In Farrell's trilogy the degeneration and degradation of his protagonist is due to the impact of sensuality, drink and debauchery on his life.
		In Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy, the fall of the protagonist becomes a matter of heredity.
		Characters in both trilogies lead lives that are, in essence, determined -- as are their actions -- by biological determinism (heredity), social determinism (environment or milieu) or by the historic moment.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/654/cu3.htm (633 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special \| A life in writing
		As the Cairo Trilogy (which opens at the home of El-Sayed Ahmed Abdel- Gawwad with the words "She woke at midnight") begins at home, so too should the tale of Arabic literature's master storyteller, at his home in Al- Gamaliya.
		In 1924, when Naguib Mahfouz was 12, the family moved to a house in Abbasiya, a neighbourhood foregrounded in the novels of the Trilogy, in Al- Harafish and Awlad Haratina as well as in the semi-autobiographical sketches contained in Mirrors.
		His magnum opus, The Cairo Trilogy, was first serialised in Al-Risala Al-Gadida in 1956 before being published in three volumes.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/564/8sc1.htm (1055 words)

	Cairo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		: This trilogy takes you through the history of Cairo/ Egypt at the start of the 20th century and in fact also leads you through three generations of the same family undergoing, shaping and living the events of that time.
		It is crystal clear as to what drives their actions, and as the story twists into a compelling read, it is as though you actually know the characters...
		Second part of "The Cairo Trilogy" : In the second volume of "The Cairo Trilogy", we follow the progress of Al.Sayyid Ahmad Abd al...
	books.mysic.co.uk /Cairo (473 words)

	Commentary Magazine - A Great 20th-Century Novelist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		...In one, The New Cairo (1945), the main characters are a prototypical group of students: an Islamic fundamentalist...
		...The Cairo opera house, modeled on the Paris Opera, was for a century (until it was ruined by fire in 1971) a monument to his relentless Westernizing zeal but also to the appalling gap between the Westernized upper crust and the masses...
		...The Cairo trilogy established Mahfouz deservedly and uncontestably as the foremost Egyptian, indeed the foremost Arab, novelist...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V91I6P36-1.htm (4060 words)

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		Born in the al-Jamaliyya district of Cairo, Egypt, on December 11, 1911, he was the youngest of seven children and lived there until the age of six (or twelve, depending on biographer).
		Naguib, who was born to a middle-class family in one of the oldest quarters in Cairo, was to give expression in powerful metaphors, over a period of half a century, to the hopes and frustrations of his nation.
		The final volume in Nobel laureate Mahfouz's magisterial Cairo trilogy takes the Abd al-Jawad family from a rising tide of nationalist sentiment in 1935 through the darkness and confusion of WW II, as Britain defends an Egypt officially neutral.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/mahfz.htm (3141 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy): Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Palace Walk is the first volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, the story of twentieth century Egypt told through the eyes of the Al Jawad family.
		A sweeping family saga crossing three generations, the trilogy is set in the old quarter of Cairo, and spans the decades from the early part of the century to Nasser's historic overthrowal of the old regime in 1952.
		He tells a gripping story of a family's life in Cairo, interweaving the stories of each member of the family with the wider political events affecting Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0552995800 (1556 words)

	GN Online: In league with the best
		The aspirations that may have born and the dreams that had died were personifications of Cairo's neighbourhoods, which Mahfouz had transfered onto the pages.
		This began with the publication of the novel A New Cairo, in 1945.
		Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 in Al-Jamaliyya district.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=51266 (1867 words)

	GN Online: A deep concern for the lower middle class
		One of the foremost writers in modern Arabic literature, Mahfouz was born in 1911 in Gamaliyya, an old district of Cairo that became the setting for several of his novels.
		His three parts novel, Al Thulathiyya (The Trilogy), that depicts the historical era from 1917 to 1944, is a good portrayal of that belief.
		Among his works that were translated into English are the three parts of the Cairo Trilogy including Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street, The Beginning and the End, Adrift on the Nile, The Harafish, The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail, Miramar and other stories.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=35312 (396 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "Cairo Trilogy," the early novels that established Mahfouz's reputation, won loyal readers here and sold more than 250,000 copies.
		The trilogy was a meticulous depiction of a specific place and time; it was written on the models of the major English, French and Russian novels of the 19th century.
		In a way, "The Harafish," now translated for the first time, is a complement to the "Cairo Trilogy," or the "Cairo Trilogy" turned inside out.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1994/1994y.html (625 words)

	Powell's Books - Cairo Trilogy #1: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cairo Trilogy #0002: Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
		The master work by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, this stunning book, which introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1990s, is "a majestic and capacious accomplishment" (The Boston Globe).
		A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0385264666 (125 words)

	Naguib Mahfouz
		The alley is in the heart of the ancient Jamaliyya quarter of Cairo, where Mahfouz was born and spent his childhood and where much of his best work is set.
		His attachment to the quarter is still strong, decades after leaving it for the suburbs, but at 77he laments that he is not able to visit it as often as he used to.
		He was born in 1911, the son of a middle-class Jamaliyyah merchant, and graduated from Cairo University in 1934 with a degree in philosophy.
	almashriq.hiof.no /egypt/900/920/naguib_mahfouz/nobel_price (1594 words)

	Programming Tutorials - Books : Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy, 3)
		Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace Of Desire.
		I enjoyed the first and final books in this trilogy and feel I came away with a better understanding of the conflicting forces at work in Egypt as well as the impact of culture and morality on individual actions and spirituality.
		This is the last installment of the Cairo trilogy, a saga spanning several generations of a family in Egypt during the first decades of the 20th century.
	www.programmertutorials.com /ItemId/0385264704 (484 words)

	LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- The Effects of Belated Modernity as evident in the Cairo Trilogy
		Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy is instructive in that it presents an illustration of the inherent conflict involved in the modernization project in which tradition and modern are diametrically opposed.
		In the Cairo Trilogy emphasis is placed on the association and distinction of these two realms.
		In the absence of a social context, the Trilogy accentuates the difficulty in transcending the problems of a fragmented society.
	www.literatureclassics.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=746 (4095 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street: Books: Naguib Mahfouz,Edward W. Said
		Throughout the trilogy, the family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.
		The Cairo Trilogy is a breathtaking, uplifting and deeply affecting achievement.
		I am so happy to see the Cairo Trilogy finally presented in one volume instead of the three separate books that it was previously issued as......
	www.amazon.ca /Cairo-Trilogy-Palace-Desire-Street/dp/0375413316 (1679 words)

	Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		I liked this book very much and found it to be the only one worth reading in the trilogy.
		The first of my book group's selections, this is the very long first book in the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner's "Cairo Trilogy." I had always wanted to read something by Mahfouz, and this is supposed to be one of his best.
		It's a realistic portrayal of the life of a middle-class Cairo family circa WWI, under British occupation--although it should be noted that the family dynamics are not typical of the time and place.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/ASIN/0385264666/Palace_Walk_(Cairo_Trilogy).html (787 words)

	Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At its heart, the entire trilogy is about people living their lives in Egypt - an Egypt overshadowed by the events from the end of the First World War through to the emergence of Gamal Abd al-Nasser.
		The trilogy is about the al-Jawad family; father, mother and five children (one is the father's son from a previous marriage) and how they relate to each other, to themselves and to the world around them.
		There is rich description of Cairo life in the early 20th century, especially that of women in harem seclusion, and the resulting gulf of understanding between men and women.
	www.onlinemerchantaccountnow.com /BookStore/isbn0385264666.html (853 words)

	Literature, Art & Music: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But more than anything, the trilogy is an intimate dissemination of the soul, desires, imagination and motivations of individuals, an interrogation of the family, and Mahfouz orchestrates it with the precision of a master.
		The trilogy begins, unforgettably, at midnight in the family house on Palace Walk, where Amina awaits the return of her husband from an evening of carousing.
		And as the trilogy proceeds, we witness the corrosive nature of time and circumstance upon his authority, as his children grow into the world, and the political destiny of Egypt is contested both within, and without, the family home.
	www.chowk.com /show_picks_book.cgi?pbookid=8 (10755 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film festival CAIRO TALES
		The films in the "Cairo Tales" festival actually range in origin from Syria to Morocco — many with women at the center, and many set in flashpoints between change and tradition.
		"Cairo Tales," the Lincoln Center film series inspired this year by 1950s-60s Egyptian director Salah Abou Seif, reaches surprisingly far afield for many of its contemporary offerings, from Syria to Morocco.
		In fact, with films from Lebanon, Algeria and Morocco prominently featured, you'll be rewarded for any high school French you may remember — it's often significant to notice when the characters are speaking the colonial language as opposed to the indigenous one.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/cairotales.php (1187 words)

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