1. Children of Gebelawi, trans. Philip Stewart, London: Heinemann, 1981.

2. 'Akhiran ... tab'a sha'biyya min Awlad Haratina', Al-Ahali no 369 (2 Nov. 1988), p8.

3. Midhat al-Siba'i, 'Najib Mahfuz bayna al-qalam wa'l-kamira', Sabah al-Khayrno 1712(27Oct. 1988), p16.

4. E.g., the comments of Latifa al-Zayyat and Salah 'Isa in 'Hal yastamirru muquta'at Najib Mahfuz?' and Muhammad Barrada, 'Hadith al-Arba'a', both in Al-Ahali no 369 (2 Nov. 1988), p8; from outside Egypt, Georges Trad, 'Nobel Najib Mahfuz bayna al-siyasa wa'l-adab', al-Sayyad no 2295 (28 Oct. 1988), pp36-37.

5. E.g., the comments of Sayyid al-Bahrawi in M. Barghut, 'Al-Katib aladhi yartadi al-rub di shambir', al-Ahali no 368 (26 Oct. 1988), p8; Raja' al-Naqqash, 'al-Rafid al-wahid', al-Musawwar no 3342 (28 Oct. 1988), p53.

6. E.g., Trad, p36, citing comments in the Syrian newspaper al-Thawra and the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Watan.

7. Muhammad Kushayk, 'Hiwar al-'adad: Ma'a 'amid al-riwaya al-'arabiyya Najib Mahfuz' [interview], al-Thaqafa al-Jadida nos 15/16 (April 1988), p143; 'Najib Mahfuz ba'da husulihi 'ala Nubil' [interview], al-Musawwar no 3341 (21 Oct. 1988), p12.

8. E.g., the comments of Radwa 'Ashur in Barghut, p8.

9. Barrada, p8.

10. Amir Iskandar, "Imlaqun qabla al-ja'iza, wa-ba'daha, wabi-raghmiha', Al-Manar, p6.

11. 'Najib Mahfuz ba'da husulihi', p19. The following quotes came from the same interview, pp19 and 68.

12. Gamal al-Ghitani, Najib Mahfuz yatadhakkiru. Cairo: Akhbar al-Yawm, 2d. pr., n.d., p117.

13. Al-Siba'i,p16.

14. Al-Siba'i, p16.

15. See her comments in Barghut, p8.

Mahfouz and the Arab voice

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