Author: Amr Khaldony
The life of the writer Naguib Mahfouz
His life and upbringing
Naguib Mahfouz Abdul Aziz Ibrahim Ahmed Basha was born in the Cairo neighborhood aesthetic. His father, who was an employee did not read a book in his life after the Qur'an is a modern Isa bin Hisham because the writer Moelhi was a friend to him, and Fatima Mustafa Akecahh, the daughter of Sheikh Mustafa Akecahh of Alozahr.okan Naguib Mahfouz scientists youngest of his brothers, and because the difference between him and the nearest of his brothers not to him was ten years has been treated like a single child. 7 years old when he made the 1919 revolution that affected it and remember it later in the first hat-trick between the two palaces parts.
He joined the University of Cairo in 1930 and received a Bachelor of Philosophy, then proceeded to prepare master's thesis about beauty in Islamic philosophy and then changed his mind and decided to focus on literature. He joined the government service to serve as secretary of parliament in the Ministry of Awqaf (1938 - 1945), then the director of the Foundation of the loan is good in the ministry until 1954 and then worked as director of the Office of the Minister of Guidance, then go to the Ministry of Culture director for the control of artistic works. In 1960 he served as director general of the Foundation to support the cinema, then an adviser of the General Organization for Cinema and radio and television. Another government position he held was the Chairman of the General Organization for Cinema Management (1966 - 1971), and after retirement to become a book-Pyramids Foundation
Naguib Mahfouz married in the period he stopped writing after the 1952 revolution Ms. gift of God of Abraham, and concealed the news of the marriage of those around him for ten years, citing the lack of his marriage Buncgalh sponsored by his mother and his sister, a widow and her children. At the time, his income has increased from his work in writing film scripts and has become enough money to start a family. It was not known about his marriage only after ten years of its occurrence when I fought one of his daughters, Umm Kulthum and Fatima with a colleague at the school, he knew the poet Salah Jaheen about it from the father of the student, and the news spread of knowledge
Literary career
Naguib Mahfouz began writing in the mid-thirties, and it was his short stories published in the Journal of the message. In 1939, he published his first novel, the futility of the Fates offered his concept of historical realism. Then publish the struggle of good and Radubis ending a historic triple in the time of the Pharaohs. Starting with the 1945 Naguib Mahfouz began to plan a realistic novelist who kept him in most of his literary novel New Cairo, and Khan al-Khalili and alley Muller. Try Naguib Mahfouz psychological realism in the novel mirage, and then returned to the social realism with a beginning and an end and triple Cairo. Mahfouz later went to Avatar in his novels beggar, and Children of the Alley, which caused strong reactions and the cause of incitement to the assassination attempt. Also turned in an advanced stage of the literary career to new concepts such as writing on the borders of fantasy, as in the novel (Aharavi, s A night) and writing revealing mystic and dreams as in the process (Echoes biography, dreams of convalescence) and two marked by condensation poetic and the bombing of the language and the world, and is considered Mahfouz books on one hand as a social and political life in Egypt, mirror, on the other hand can be considered as a codification of contemporary human existence and their status in the world of human sounds like the abandonment of God or God abandoned, as it reflects the vision of intellectuals irrespective of their affiliations to power.
Children of the Alley
Naguib Mahfouz stopped writing after the triple, and entered in the case of literary silence, which moved from social realism to realism Avatar. Then he began publishing the new novel, Children of the Alley in a Pyramids newspaper in 1959 in which surrendered Najib tempted to use anecdotes major of the history of humanity in reading the political and social moment to Egypt after the revolution to put on the men of the revolution for the way they want to walk the question (by bullies or through Aharavi ?), and the novel raised strong reactions caused the cessation of dissemination and guidance not to complete diffusion in Egypt, despite the publication in 1967 of the Lebanese House of Arts. Strong reactions from direct interpretations of religious symbols in the novel, and the characters were like: Gabalawy, Adham, Idris, Mountain, Naval, Qassim, and Arafah. The form Gabalawy death of the ideological shock to many of the religious parties.
Children of the Alley is one of the four novels caused Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for literature, as it was the direct cause of incitement to the assassination attempt. And then not completely given up on realism Avatar, The Harafish Venture in 1977, ten years after the publication of Children of the Alley complete.
It also has refused to publish after that the interest on a promise to Mr. Kamal Abul-Magd delegate President Nasser not to publish the novel in Egypt.
Monetary appreciation
With that he began writing in the early, but the Naguib Mahfouz did not receive attention until near the end of the fifties, leaving a disregard by critics for nearly fifteen years before cash interest begins its work in emerging and growing, though, Sayyid Qutb him in the Journal of the letter wrote in 1944, he was the first critic talks about the new novel by Cairo, and disagreed with Salahuddin my mind because of the struggle of a good novel. And he wrote about Muhammad Overture, in the shadows of politics: the novelist Naguib Mahfouz between idealism and realism, a literary study of monetary analysis, the newspaper wrote about life in the eighth anniversary of his death: Who is the Naguib Mahfouz
Travelling abroad
He knew about the great writer Naguib Mahfouz strong tendency not to travel abroad so much that he did not attend to receive the Nobel Prize, and sent his son to the receipt and with that he traveled part of a delegation from the Egyptian Writers to both Yemen and Yugoslavia in the early sixties and again to London for surgery heart 1989
The assassination attempt
At September 21, 1950 began publishing the novel Children of the Alley serialized in Al-Ahram newspaper, then stop publishing on 25 December of the same year due to the objections of religious bodies to "profaning the divine." Full story has not been published in Egypt in that period, and required eight more years until the full show in the Lebanese House of Arts edition by edition in Beirut in 1967. He was re-publication of Children of the Alley in Egypt in 2006 by Dar Al Shorouk
In October 1995, Naguib Mahfouz was stabbed in the neck at the hands of two young men had decided to assassinate him on charges of blasphemy and exit from the sect because of the controversial novel. It is worth mentioning here that the nature of Naguib Mahfouz quiet had a significant impact on not to publish the novel in an Egyptian edition for many years, where he had been linked to the promise with Hassan Sabri Al-Kholi "Personal Representative of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser," not to publish the novel in Egypt only after taking Azhar approval . Aftbat novel in Lebanon from issuing House of Arts in 1962, and to prevent entry to Egypt despite the fact that smuggled copies of which found their way into the Egyptian market. Naguib Mahfouz did not die as a result of the attempt, and later the two young men-chairs executed in the assassination attempt, despite his comment that he is not hateful to those who tried to kill him, and that he wished he had not executed as .. During his long stay in the hospital was visited by Muhammad al-Ghazali, who was among those who called for the prevention of the deployment of the children of sailors and Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, a trip caused a severe attack by some militants to Aboul Fotouh
His death
Naguib Mahfouz died at the beginning of August 29, 2006 following a bleeding ulcer after twenty days of entering the Police Hospital in the Agouza neighborhood in Giza Governorate to injury health problems in the lungs and kidneys. He was accepted had entered the hospital in July of the same year for an injury gummy in the head after falling in the street
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