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Unlike many others who sought fame through their relationship with the Nobel laureate, El-Ghitany was a true friend to Mahfouz, with whom he shared an honest and heartfelt friendship   (more...)

What promises at first to be a novel of historical intrigue, disappears into confusion at the hand of writer Mahmoud Abdel Ghani  (more...)

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