The Final Hour: A Modern Arabic Novel
Naguib Mahfouz(1911 2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.Roger Allenis professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his translations are Naguib Mahfouz'sMirrors,Karnak Café, andKhan al-Khalili(AUC Press, 1999, 2007, 2008).