The Meaning of Civilisation VoL II

When Naguib Mahfouz left his job as a civil servant in 1971 a Nobel Prize in literature was nowhere on the horizon nor was his global recognition as the central figure of Arab literature. He was just beginning a new job on the editorial staff of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram and elsewhere in Cairo Anwar Sadat was just beginning his hugely transformative Egyptian presidency which would span eleven years. The Meaning of Civilisation is a collection of essays that captures one of Egypt’s most imp...See More