Naguib Mahfouz

Thirteen [13] Inscirbed Volumes; Yom Kotal al Aaeem, Al Fajr Al Kazeb, Malhamat Al Harafeash, et. al.

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1977 - 1988. First Edition. All volumes are inscribed to the same person, Dr. Ali Hassan Ibrahim. Ibrahim was Mahfouz's medical doctor and close confidante, as well as himself a home grown poet. Ibrahim was the son of Sir Ali Ibrahim (1880 - 1946). The elder Ibrahim was perhaps the most renown surgeon and medical doctor in Egypt in the first half of the 20th century. Aside from being the director of multiple hospitals and advisor to the King, Ibrahim created the great Fouad I Hospital in Cairo, was President of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society, and founder of the Egyptian Medical Association. These emotional inscriptions emphasize the close relationship between the two men.

1. Yom Kotal al Aaeem (The day of Assassination of the Leader), Two Copies, 1985. Inscribed: “with love and appreciation /s/”. 2.. Al Fajr Al Kazeb (Pseudo Dawn), 1988. Inscribed: “The great human being and poet Ali Hassan Ibrahim with my appreciation and devotion, /s/ Dec. 31 1989”. 3. Raayt- fema- yara- Alnaem (I Saw In My Dreams), 1982. Inscribed: “The doctor and poet Hassan Ibrahim with sincere admiration and devotion”. 4. Malhamat Al Harafeash (The Harafish), 1977, Inscribed: “Dr Ali Hassan Ibrahim with devotion and appreciation, Sincerely, Naguib Mahfouz.” 5. El Tanzeem El Sery (The Secret Organization), 1984, Inscribed: “Symbol of love and appreciation /s/”. 6. El-Aiesh F-al Hakiaa (The One Who Is Living In Reality), 1985,Inscribed: “with my sincere devotion and appreciation /s/”. 7. Sabah El-Ward (Rosey Morning), 1987, Inscribed: “To the great doctor and the noble poet Hassan Ibrahim who is example of admiration and appreciation, /s/”. The faithful Naguib Mahfouz.
8. Afrah Al Quba (Wedding Song). Inscribed: “with my sincere devotion and honor, /s/”. 9. Sabah El-Ward (Rosy Morning), 1987, Inscribed: “To the great doctor and the noble poet Hassan Ibrahim who is example of admiration and appreciation, The Faithful Naguib Mahfouz”. 10. Al Hob Fouq Hadabit Al Haram (Love of The Pyramids Plateau), 1979, Inscribed: “With my Sincere Appreciation and admiration, /s/”. 11. Al Shytan Yaez (The Devil Preaches),1979,Inscribed: “With my best wishes and admiration". 12. Raayt- fema- yara- Alnaem (I Saw In My Dreams),1982,Inscribed: “the doctor and poet Hassan Ibrahim with sincere admiration and devotion /s/”.

Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006) has been the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). He spent most all of his life in Cairo, where he published his first novel in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. The appearance of the Cairo Triology, Bayn al Qasrayn, Qasr al Shawq, Sukkariya (Between-the-Palaces, Palace of Longing, Sugarhouse) in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor of traditional urban life. Until 1972, Mahfouz was employed as a civil servant, first in the Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, as Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and, finally, as consultant on Cultural Affairs to the Ministry of Culture. The years following his retirement from the Egyptian bureaucracy saw an outburst of further creativity, much of it experimental. He was the author of no fewer than thirty novels, more than a hundred short stories, and more than two hundred articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated throughout the Arabic-speaking world. (Les Prix Nobel). All volumes are First Editions of the same publisher, Maktbit Misr in Cairo. Very Good, as a collection, each indiviual card stock cover book has their own scratch, edge wear or bend, however, minimal wear indicative of a one time read. The graphic covers, most all with an alluring woman on the cover, are still colorfully bright and spines lightly creased. Item #3354

"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease." - Naguib Mahfouz.

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