Mahfouz in a sentence

His father, Abdel-Aziz Ibrahim, whom Mahfouz described as having been "old-fashioned", was a civil servant, and Mahfouz eventually followed in his footsteps in 1934.

Mahfouz and Mounir would spend most of their time in Mounir's office; Mahfouz used Mounir's library as a reference for most of his books.

Mahfouz stayed with Mounir until his death. citation Personal life Mahfouz remained a bachelor until age 43 because he believed that with its numerous restrictions and limitations, marriage would hamper his literary future.

Mahfouz temporarily disabled the commenting feature on the city’s Facebook page after supporters of the anti-abortion group spammed them with comments calling for Cain to be fired.

The ALC has announced the selection of Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz as the Focus Personality for this year’s Book Fair.

Islamic Center assistant manager Osamah Bin-Mahfouz, 27, said many devout Muslims wash their hands, arms, nose, face, head, feet and ankles before each of the five daily prayers, or Salat.

The quarter had become the site for his fiction by the 1940s, but it was the publication of that catapulted Mahfouz to fame as a draughtsman of the minutiae of urban life.

In his presentation, Dr. Mahfouz Adedimeji whose paper centered his topic on “Religions as a catalyst for peace building, National Integration and conflict Management in Nigeria” identified the population grouping of the global religious sects.

After the incident Mahfouz was unable to write for more than a few minutes a day and consequently produced fewer and fewer works.

After the threats, Mahfouz stayed in Cairo with his lawyer Nabil Mounir Habib.

Civil service After receiving his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Cairo University in 1934, Mahfouz joined the Egyptian civil service, where he continued to work in various positions and ministries until retirement in 1971.

He stated that "You would never have thought that an artist would emerge from that family." citation The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 had a strong effect on Mahfouz, although he was at the time only seven years old.

However, following the third volume, he shifted his interest to the present and the psychological impact of social change on ordinary people. citation Mahfouz's prose is characterised by the blunt expression of his ideas.

Inspired by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Mahfouz planned to cover the entire history of Egypt in a series of books.

In the prize citation you are credited with the forming of an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind." citation Because Mahfouz found traveling to Sweden difficult at his age, he did not attend the award ceremony.

Like many Egyptian writers and intellectuals, Mahfouz was on an Islamic fundamentalist "death list".

Mahfouz believed in freedom of expression and, although he did not personally agree with Rushdie's work, he did not believe that there should be a fatwa condemning him to death for it.

Mahfouz even visited Qutb when the latter was in hospital, during the 1960s, near the end of his life.

Mahfouz stopped writing for some years after finishing the trilogy.

Mahfouz was the seventh and the youngest child, with four brothers and two sisters, all of them much older than him.