Gamal Al Ghitani: 4 books

The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century. Mahfouz was a pivotal figure...

An unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes. The college graduate, the street vendors, the political prisoner, the café owner, the taxi driver, the beautiful green-eyed young wife with the troll of a husband all are subjects...

»Willkommen in Kairo« ist eine einzigartige Einladung, das Land am Nil aus der Sicht ägyptischer Erfolgsautorinnen und -autoren zu entdecken. Die Texte, sorgfältig ausgewählt aus der Reihe zeitgenössischer arabischer Literatur im Lenos Verlag, bestechen durch ihre erzählerische Brillanz und ihre...

With its Sufistic parables of the human condition, rendered in a style redolent of both the austere meditations of Borges and the dark engorged ruminations of Arthur C. Clark, Pyramid Texts engages the mind and beguiles the imagination. In a series of chapters each shorter than the last so that, like...