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kamar
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: Egypt Nobel winner Mahfouz dies |
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Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz has died in hospital in the capital, Cairo, aged 94.
Mahfouz had been in hospital since mid-July after he fell during a midnight stroll and injured his head.
His vibrant, colourful portrayal of capital in his Cairo Trilogy won the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature.
He had suffered health problems since being stabbed in the neck in 1994 by an Islamist extremist, angry at his portrayal of God in one of his novels.
After that incident, he was in hospital for seven weeks and suffered nerve damage in his neck, which limited his ability to write and caused his eyesight and hearing to deteriorate.
Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel Prize brought international recognition to a man already regarded in the Middle East as one of its best writers and premier intellectuals.
He has published more than 30 novels, short stories, plays, newspaper columns, essays, travelogues, memoirs and political analyses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5297470.stm |
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Eastern girl
Joined: 21 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| very sad....Allah yarhamo... |
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kamar
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| yes, very sad :cry: :cry: :cry: |
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Hoss
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Location: Cairo, Egypt
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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This man has already engraved his name in the minds and heart of his readers worldwide...El Baka2 le Allah ( Eternity is only for Allah)
His name will always be in our minds and hearts... |
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Winky
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Mafhouz was born in a warren of ancient alleys in the heart of Islamic Cairo, behind the al-Hussein Mosque, in the neighborhood of Gamaliyya, in December 1911 and as far as I know this is the Sharia he was born :arrow:
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