Required

  • Edward Said, "Foreword" to Elias Khoury, Little Mountain (only pp. x-xiv are required this week)

 

Recommended

Egypt

  • Egypt (Encyclopedia Britannica Online) (HSU users only)

Naguib Mahfouz

  • Mahfouz page of the Nobel Foundation (the navigation--which takes you to a biography of Mahfouz, his 1988 Nobel Prize Lecture, and a lengthy article on Mahfouz's place in the development of the modern Arabic novel--is in the grey sidebar to the right)
  • Short biography & bibliography (Books and Writers)
  • Official biography and critical overview (Egypt State Information Service)
  • Short entry in Wikipedia
  • Naguib Mahfouz links (Nobel Prize Internet Archive)
  • Mahfouz in the Gale Literary Databases (HSU users only)
  • Larry Luxnor, "A Nobel for the Arab Nation" (interview with Mahfouz, Aramco World Magazine, March-April 1989) | Edward Fox, "The Watcher on the Curb" (critical appreciation of Mahfouz's work, Aramco World Magazine, March-April 1989)