... Ahmed Alaidy Alaa Al Aswany Naguib Mahfouz Nasserism Sadat era This article considers the narrative structures of Egyptian novels of the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By doing so, I argue that these novels represent a certain return to realism. Insofar as they depict...

... contemptuous of originary boasts declare the Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz to be the pioneer of the Arab novel when in the middle of the twentieth century he published a trilogy about pharaonic Egypt. Without entering into this dating game, we can safely say that whenever the Arab novel appeared...

... purchase on history, in Egypt the capacious realisms of Naguib Mahfouz flourished during the same decades that saw the entrenchment of modernist orthodoxy in Europe and the United States. When an Egyptian modernism emerged in the 1960s, it was, according to Radwan, as much a response to Nasser-era...

.... In North American critical and journalistic discourse, commentators on the global traffic in literary fiction have been calling for a neorealist canon, with writers such as Naguib Mahfouz and Pramoedya Ananta Toer recruited to play the grizzled stalwarts to new masters such as Amitav Ghosh and Chimamanda...