Midaq Alley (novel)
First English edition
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| Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
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| Original title | زقاق المدق |
| Translator | Trevor Le Gassick |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
| Publisher | Khayats, Beirut (1966) |
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Publication date
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1947 |
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Published in English
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1966 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 286 pp |
| OCLC | 438354830 |
| 892/.736 20 | |
| LC Class | PJ7846.A46 Z4813 1992 |
This article is about the Naguib Mahfouz novel. For the film of the novel, see Midaq Alley (film). For the alley, see Khan El-Khalili.
Midaq Alley is the English Translation of Zuqāq al-Midaq by Naguib Mahfouz, released in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is a microcosm of the world.
Mahfouz plays on the cultural setting. The novel is introduced with description of the Arabic culture. It centers around the list of characters described below. The novel takes place in the 1940s and represents standing on the threshold of a modern era in Cairo and the rest of the nation as a whole.
Each character is expressed like a caricature in which one quality or trait is over-emphasized. Mahfouz is not satirizing the individual character – he is satirizing the character type.
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