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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

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About Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian novelist and screenwriter and the first Arab-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for The Cairo Trilogy and major works of modern Arabic fiction.

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