Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz’s short story “Zaabalawi” and Paolo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist both trace the encounters of a narrator who embarks on a spiritual journey. The works are strikingly similar in that they are both are organized as quest narratives, and both are set in the middle east with the same endgame in mind: enlightenment. As Santiago from The Alchemist and the unnamed narrator from “Zaabalawi” travel, they embody the seeker archetype, and from each person they meet, they gain wisdom and strength

Revolutions have taken place over history around the whole world and varied greatly according to their causes, objectives, and results. They all occur in order to make a kind of change, either by attempting to modify regimes or completely overthrow them. Their results incorporate material changes in political, economic, cultural, and social life. In Egypt, two of the most crucial revolutions that have occurred are the 1952 and 2011 revolutions. Even though the gap of years between them is quite wide

group called the Free officers’ movement. This group consisted of army members who wanted to abolish the monarchy that was linked to the British Empire and replace it with a republic. On July 23rd, 1949 the Free officers’ movement led by Muhammad Naguib and Nasser, overthrew King Farouk. King Farouk sailed into exile on his yacht on July 26 1952. Egypt was finally named a republic on June 18th, 1953 and Nasser became Egypt’s first ever president and a commander and chief. He also gained a lot

Genre Analysis: The social purpose of this Factorial explanation is that any historical event can be illustrated by two or more factors (Martin & Rose, 2007) to describe the events that happened on July 24, 2014. A Factorial explanation has different stages, which include Phenomenon and explanation. These stages consist of various factors. The first three stages are combined together to construct the nucleus, while the explanation is divided into various factors. These factors could be functioning

worldwide. Naguib Mahfouz was an amazing writer and he brought great pride to the Arabic people. After winning the Nobel Prize in 1988 Mahfouz gained a great number of admirers, not only in Egypt but worldwide. Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most famous writers of the Arabic speaking language. Mahfouz is also one of the most widely read and respected authors in Egypt. While alive, Mahfouz was largely responsible for importing non-native form into his writing. During the 1960’s Mahfouz was known as

Chapter 3 Class Conflicts Class conflict refers to the struggle of different sections of a society regarding the economic status of its people. The major element of the class conflict is the inequality among the different sections of society keeping in view distribution and consumption of natural resources. To understand this term more effectively we must keep in mind Marx’s structure of society in relation to its major classes, and the struggle between them as a driving force to bring a change

Naguib Mahfouz’s Zaabalawi The Islamic tradition, as reflected in Naguib Mahfouz’s Zaabalawi, has over the course of history had an incredible impact on Arab culture. In Mahfouz’s time, Islamic practices combined with their political relevance proved a source of both great power and woe in Middle Eastern countries. As alluded to in Zaabalawi, Mahfouz asserts the fact that not all Muslims attain religious fulfillment through this common tradition, and other methods outside the scope of Islam

essay compare the protagonists' decisions not to marry in "The Answer is No" and James Joyce's "Eveline". Both of the short stories 'The Answer is No' by 'Naguib Mahfouz', and 'Eveline' by 'James Joyce' are basically about the decline of the marriage proposals by the women. These stories took place in the male dominated society. Naquib Mahfouz, in his story, make the readers understand the amount of suffering of the women taking place in the society. Also, he is quite successful in analysing the

various levels. In The Norwegian Rat by Naguib Mahfouz, the ambiguousness is intended to prompt the reader to see the rats as the literal enemy, an allegorical representation of a human enemy, like the Israeli army, or an abstract idea, like fear. To this particular story, ambiguity is effective in causing a discussion regarding both problems of the sanitation of Cairo with the threat of the rats as well as the Arab-Israeli conflict happening while Mahfouz was writing The Norwegian Rat. In addition

The meaning behind Akhenaten Going against many years of Egyptian worship Akhenaten proclaimed in about the 14th century B.C that his people were only to worship one god and that was the sun disk Aten. Akhenaten was called a monotheist maybe even the first to live. Egyptian King Akhenaten’s meaning “Effective for Aten”. His name was originally Amenhotep IV, he ruled for about 20 years. While in his rule he move the royal house from Thebes to a new site somewhere in middle Egypt, Akhenaten ordered