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Stories in Cairo
Posted by bookncurls on August 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Naguib Mahfouz wrote stories about Cairo which won him in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Literature. I was in a bus driving through the streets of Cairo late the other night thinking about him. What makes the chaos and the dirt beautiful or nostalgic? It makes me want to investigate the not so obvious reasons people love the … Continue reading →
Filed under A Comment, Middle East · Tagged with Cairo, Egypt, Islam, Mosques, Naguib Mahfouz