Naguib Mahfouz
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Born on December 11th 1911, he was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature,...Read more along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films. Mahfouz's central work in the 1950s was the Cairo Trilogy, an immense monumental work of 1,500 pages, which the author completed before the July Revolution. The novels were titled with the street names Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. Mahfouz set the story in the parts of Cairo where he grew up. They depict the life of the patriarch el-Sayyed Ahmed Abdel Gawad and his family over three generations, from World War I to the 1950s, when King Farouk I was overthrown. With its rich variety of characters and psychological understanding, the work connected Mahfouz to such authors as Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Galsworthy. Mahfouz ceased to write for some years after finishing the trilogy.
Allah Is the Greatest
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No man of Banu Amir Amir s tribe falls in love with Hend, the granddaughter of the head merchant of Banu Al Harith Al Haith tribe . When Hend and her grandfather convert to Islam, they refuse No man s proposal since he is an infidel, as the Muslims of Banu Al Harith are tortured to give up Islam.
Rayya and Sekina
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In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who s behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.
Tharthara Fawq El Nil
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Anis Zaki is an employee who s always stoned from the drugs he takes. He meets the actor Rajab Al Qadi, who introduces him to the group with whom he spends most of his time on one of the floating boats overlooking the Nile, and Anis becomes part of this group that lives in its own world.
