Egypt
The Observer (Review by Rachel Redford)
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz. Full-cast production starring Omar Sharif Download at bbcaudiozone.com In three parts, 57mins/£3.60 each.
- Profile: Britta Le Va (photographer Of The Cairo Museum)
Egypt Today (Nadine El-Sayed) There are few who can claim to be as deeply involved in such a variety of Egypt-related work. It was Le Va’s keen photographic eye that inspired Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to ask her to photograph...
- Fiction Review: Morning And Evening Talk
The Financial Times (Review by Maureen Freely) Morning and Evening Talk: A Modern Arabic Novel By Naguib Mahfouz Translated by Christina Phillips American University in Cairo Press If the universal is the local without walls, the late writer Naguib Mahfouz...
- Obituaries: Naguib Mahfouz
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060909-101228-8126r.htm"Naguib Mahfouz wrote about his Cairo not as an abstraction but as one long street of shopkeepers, government employees, pensioners, quiet decent people and the other kind, the small-time...
- Naguib Mahfouz Dies
http://tinyurl.com/mz5dh (aljazeera.com) Not an Egyptology item, but something that I think many people will be sad to read: "Let me pay a tribute to Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz who died today at the age of 94, following a long...
- Book Review: Mahfouz On Ancient Egypt
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2002672675_mahfouz11.html"Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz is best known for "The Cairo Trilogy," his saga about a modern Egyptian family living under British colonial rule between the two world wars....
Egypt
Review: Audio version of The Cairo Trilogy
The Observer (Review by Rachel Redford)
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz. Full-cast production starring Omar Sharif Download at bbcaudiozone.com In three parts, 57mins/£3.60 each.
This is a Sony award-winning production of the late Naguib Mahfouz's saga set in Cairo from 1917 to 1953, during the rise of nationalism and the beginnings of Islamic fundamentalism. A patriarchal family, a mirror of Egypt itself, has monstrous father al-Sayyid Ahmad at its head. His sons rail against the tyrannical love and tradition in the family and ally themselves to the dangerous upheaval outside. Recorded in Cairo and crammed with the tumultuous sounds and voices of a city in crisis, the dramatisation is brilliant. Its brightest star is the plangent, soulful voice of Omar Sharif as al-Sayyid Ahmad.
- Profile: Britta Le Va (photographer Of The Cairo Museum)
Egypt Today (Nadine El-Sayed) There are few who can claim to be as deeply involved in such a variety of Egypt-related work. It was Le Va’s keen photographic eye that inspired Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to ask her to photograph...
- Fiction Review: Morning And Evening Talk
The Financial Times (Review by Maureen Freely) Morning and Evening Talk: A Modern Arabic Novel By Naguib Mahfouz Translated by Christina Phillips American University in Cairo Press If the universal is the local without walls, the late writer Naguib Mahfouz...
- Obituaries: Naguib Mahfouz
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060909-101228-8126r.htm"Naguib Mahfouz wrote about his Cairo not as an abstraction but as one long street of shopkeepers, government employees, pensioners, quiet decent people and the other kind, the small-time...
- Naguib Mahfouz Dies
http://tinyurl.com/mz5dh (aljazeera.com) Not an Egyptology item, but something that I think many people will be sad to read: "Let me pay a tribute to Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz who died today at the age of 94, following a long...
- Book Review: Mahfouz On Ancient Egypt
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2002672675_mahfouz11.html"Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz is best known for "The Cairo Trilogy," his saga about a modern Egyptian family living under British colonial rule between the two world wars....