Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was one of the most prolific Egyptian writers and political thinkers of the twentieth century and the first Arab author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He is the author of over thirty novels, including The Cairo Trilogy, Thief and the Dog, Miramar, and Children of the Alley, and he regularly produced articles for his column in the Al-Ahram newspaper.
