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Naguib Mahfouz was a 20th-century Egyptian writer. Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind". Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination

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“I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.”
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“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.”
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