Egypt

Palace Walk

by Naguib Mahfouz

Summary

The first volume of the Cairo Trilogy follows the al-Jawad family in a Cairo alley during the British occupation of Egypt after World War I, centred on the tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad. One of the greatest works in Arabic literature.

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Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate (1911–2006), the first Arabic-language writer to win the prize. He wrote over 50 novels and 350 short stories, most set in Cairo's streets and coffeehouses, chronicling Egyptian life across the 20th century.

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Published
1956
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Naguib Mahfouz