Naguib Mahfouz

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1977
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Cairo Trilogy

1 - Palace Walk (Jan-1990)
2 - Palace of Desire (Dec-1991)
3 - Sugar Street (Dec-1992)
Midaq Alley (Jan-1992)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • Mirrors

  • The Thief and the Dogs

    Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges ben...

  • The Beginning and the End

    First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II....

  • The Wedding Song

    Set against the backdrop of the the theater, this novel is a taut psychological drama on and off the stage.  First published in 1981, this brilliant novel focuses on how time transforms people and their emotions....

  • Palace Walk

    The Cairo Trilogy - 1

    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s....

  • Autumn Quail

    Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall featuring a corrupt young bureaucrat, Isa ad-Dabbagh, who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt. The conflict between his emotion...

  • The Beggar

    A complex tale of alienation and despair. Unable  to achieve psychological renewal in the aftermath  of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work  and family to a series of illicit love affairs  that inten...

  • Respected Sir

    In Respected Sir, Mahfouz retells a familiar theme -- vaulting ambition -- in a powerful and religious metaphor. Othman Bayuumi's humble origins do not stop him from coveting the Director-Generalship of the governmental department he has entered as a...

  • Fountain and Tomb

    Mahfouz is engrossed with the mysteries of existence.... The novel reads as an intriguing kaleidoscope, as intricate as a finely patterned prayer mat, as quickly brilliant as a discreet jewel.... The tales are warming, bizarre, frightening, frustrati...



  • The Search

    A powerful story of lust, greed and murder.  Unflinching, tough, and dramatic, The Search was most certainly intended to be a harsh criticism of Post-Revolution morality, but, on its most elemental level, it is  a lurid ...

  • Palace of Desire

    The Cairo Trilogy - 2

    The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between id...

  • The Time and the Place and Other Stories

    A collection of the short stories of the Nobel Prize-winning author of Palace Walk represents thirty years of work and features tales of the citizens of Cairo, who struggle to survive amid the city's poverty. Reprint. PW. K....

  • Midaq Alley

    The Cairo Trilogy

    Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the...

  • Miramar

    This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attention of the young servant Zohra. Zohra is a beautiful peasant girl who fled her famil...

  • Sugar Street

    The Cairo Trilogy - 3

    Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad  clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace Of Desire....

  • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

    In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through...

  • Adrift on the Nile

    First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. ...

  • Arabian Nights and Days

    The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other...

  • Children of Gebelaawi



  • The Harafish

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988,  Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living  Arab writer. His books have had great success in  this country, particularly The Cairo  Trilogy. Fans of the f...

  • Children of the Alley

    The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of h...

  • Akhenaten

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt.In this beguiling  novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985,&...

  • The Day the Leader Was Killed

    From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop...

  • Rhadopis of Nubia

    Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty.While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lif...

  • Khufu's Wisdom

    At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty ...

  • Thebes at War

    Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian historyâ€"ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern E...

  • The Seventh Heaven

    Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlifeâ€"and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassinâ€"in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatura...

  • Three Novels of Ancient Egypt

    From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels -- published in an omnibus edition for the first time -- that form an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy.Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales ...

  • Karnak Cafe

    In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo cafe in the 1960s, a leg...



  • Morning and Evening Talk

    This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history. Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from...

  • The Dreams

    In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and Dreams...

  • Cairo Modern

    The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s. Finally the camer...

  • The Final Hour

    Hamid Burhan, a retired government employee, and his loyal wife Saniya have built themselves a home in the quiet southern suburb of Helwan, where they raise their son and two daughters, expecting life to remain as blessed as it was in the photograph ...

  • In the Time of Love

    Love who can count its varieties, measure its force, uncover the masks it wears, or predict how it binds and divides? In this spare novel, master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz gives us some of his most memorable characters, widely familiar to Egyptians ...

  • Heart of the Night

  • Khan Al-khalili

    Khan al-Khalili, by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, portrays the clash of old and new in an historic Cairo neighborhood as German bombs fall on the city. The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging a...

  • The Mirage

    A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he can...

  • Before the Throne

    Nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders -- from the time of the Pharoahs to the twentieth century -- are summoned to judgment in the Court of Osiris in the Afterlife, in this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prizeâ€"winning author Naguib Mahfouz. Befor...

  • The Mummy Awakens

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   By the Arab world’s foremost novelist, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, famous for The Cairo Trilogy -- the masterwork in which Mahfouz sets down life in middle class Cairo during the interwar...



  • The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail

    Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of three novels--previously published separately by Anchor--by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes of...

  • Respected Sir, Wedding Song, The Search

    A new volume of three novelsâ€"previously published separately by Anchorâ€"by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published by Anchor in December 2000)...

  • The Time and the Place

    Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz's novels:  The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle...

  • Love Under the Rain Clouds

    Love under the Rain Clouds is one of the minor works of Egypt’s renowned writer Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006). It was written in 1973, immediately after the Six Day War. That brief but disastrous conflict marked the lowest point in modern Egyptian his...

  • The Quarter

    Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes hi...

  • I Found Myself

    I Found Myself: Last Dreams confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's storytelling—the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature (Newsweek)I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother. She re...

  • Voices from the Other World

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    Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times.From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of e...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Naguib Mahfouz has published 46 books.

The next book by Naguib Mahfouz, I Found Myself, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Naguib Mahfouz, Mirrors, was published in April 1977.

Yes. Naguib Mahfouz has 1 series.
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