Die Originalausgabe erschien 1983 unter dem Titel Rihlat Ibn Fattuma in Kairo.
Nagib Machfus nimmt sich die großen Reisenden aus der Blütezeit des Islam zum Vorbild für Ibn Fattumas Entdeckung ganz und gar heutiger...
Khan al-Khalili, by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, portrays the clash of old and new in an historic Cairo neighborhood as German bombs fall on the city.
The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is...
Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife — and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin — in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the...