"Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens."

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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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