Naguib Mahfouz, 1911-2006

Naguib Mahfouz has died. The Egyptian novelist and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Today's news stories and obituaries (1) (2) (3) are just the beginning of what will become a flood of tributes.

We have a good many of his books.

P.S. His name in Arabic: نجيب محفوظ‎, Nağīb Maḥfūẓ