Naguib Mahfouz

"It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants."

"rare privilege of entering a national psychology, in a way that thousands of journalistic articles or television documentaries could not achieve."

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

"God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."

"Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist who was the first Arabic writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature and who was often considered the greatest writer in the Arab world... lived his entire li…"

"According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment."

"Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark…"

"Naguib Mahfouz on aucpress.com"