Naguib Mahfouz, Writer

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Today I noticed he had posted a link to an article on Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize winner for Literature and so I wandered over to read it.

Lee Smith has written an article titled Remembering one of Egypt's first great novelists on Slate.com.

And who can resist an article that begins I met him in December. He was at the back of a bar in a Cairo hotel on the Nile, and in the orange glow of the dark room he pressed his eyelids together like a cat dozing in the sun. He'd fallen at home earlier in the day, and he seemed fragile.