description: Considered by many to be Mahfouz's best novel,   Midaq Alley centers around the  residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys  of Cairo. No other novel so vividly evokes the  sights and sounds of the city. The universality and  timelessness of this book cannot be denied.
language: English
title: Midaq Alley
titlecomplete: Midaq Alley
characters: Kersha, Zaita, Salim Alwan, Hamida, Dr. Booshy, Umm Hamida, Radwan Hussainy, Abbas al-Helwu, Mrs. Kersha, Kamil, Saniya Afify, Sheikh Darwish, Hussain Kersha
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, School, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa, Egypt
ratings_count: 11598
places: Egypt, Cairo
publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc