Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
Mahfouz, Naguib. "Naguib Mahfouz, The Art of Fiction No. 129." Interview by Charlotte El Shabrawy. The Paris Review, vol. 34, no. 129, Summer 1992.
Commenting on media criticism of her:
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.