Naguib Mahfouz

نجيب محفوظ

A trail through the Arab world's only Nobel laureate.

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Egypt & Nile
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Walk this pathway

5steps · 30min · newcomer · student

  1. The Trilogy

    بين القصرين وقصر الشوق والسكرية.

    The Cairo Trilogy · Cairo

  2. The alley

    أولاد حارتنا: الرمز الكبير.

    Children of Gebelawi · Cairo

  3. Cairo

    المدينة بطل الروايات: الجمالية والحسين.

    Cairo · The Cairo Trilogy

  4. The Nobel

    1988: الأدب العربي يبلغ العالم.

    The Cairo Trilogy · Children of Gebelawi

  5. The school

    محفوظ والرواية العربية: جيل كامل.

    Children of Gebelawi · Season of Migration to the North

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Overview

A path through the only Arabic Nobel laureate: the Cairo Trilogy tells of Cairo, and Children of the Alley provokes astonishment. The novel of Egypt in the twentieth century.

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islam.museum contributors. “Naguib Mahfouz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/exhibits/path-novel-mahfouz/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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