...Roger Allen Copyright © 1989 by the Project For Transnational Cultural Studies 1989 Naguib Mahfouz: Nobel Laureate Roger Allen Naguib Mahfouz, the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is the first Arab author ever to win the Nobel Prize. A Western cultural institution has...

... self-published the first issue in the fall of 1988. Within a year the Berlin Wall fell, a million protesters filled Tiananmen Square, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Cold War narratives were fast...

... Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Tayeb Salih, Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordi- mer, Naguib Mahfouz, Assia Djebar, Ben Okri, Arundhati Roy). The most obvi- ous explanation—that these and other writers among the “happy few” are selected...

... of Kamal Abdel Malik and Maha Mahfouz Abdel-Rahman in researching the Egyptian press. Also helpful were critical readings by Tim Mitchell, Unni Wikan, and anonymous reviewers for Public Culture of earlier versions. 1. For discussions of the UNESCO controversies see Mattelart, Delcourt...

... of authors. In the interviews collected in Naguib Mahfouz’s Atahaddath 3alaykum (Beirut: Dar al-3Awda, 1977), 93, the author discusses his love for the genre. Additional references to reading detective fiction can be found in Sun3allah...