The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz |
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Photographer:
| Le Va, Britta |
Text by:
| al-Ghitani, Gamal |
Foreword by:
| Mahfouz, Naguib |
Series title: | AUC Press Photo Books |
ISBN: | 978-977-424-526-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
Publisher: | American University in Cairo Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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For Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance, a city he loves passionately and has revisited in his writings. Photographer Britta Le Va, a longtime admirer of the novels of Mahfouz, guides us through his pages and treads his streets to produce a collection of visual images of the city. Each complements a verbal image selected from Mahfouzs writings. In his introduction, novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the novelist through the streets of...
More DescriptionFor Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance, a city he loves passionately and has revisited in his writings. Photographer Britta Le Va, a longtime admirer of the novels of Mahfouz, guides us through his pages and treads his streets to produce a collection of visual images of the city. Each complements a verbal image selected from Mahfouzs writings. In his introduction, novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the novelist through the streets of Gamaliya, the heart of the old city where both of themmore than thirty years apartwere born and raised. Mahfouz reminisces and remarks on what has changed and what has not in eight decades