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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 →

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“I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.”
— Naguib Mahfouz
freedom

“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.”
— Naguib Mahfouz
fear life living living-well

“Oh...why has time changed us?”
— Naguib Mahfouz
change

“Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.”
— Naguib Mahfouz
beauty

“No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer”
— Naguib Mahfouz
arab arab-author arabic freedom-of-expression

“I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others.”
— Naguib Mahfouz
honesty
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