Part one of term paper
Book Review Naguib Mahfouz is the author of the book that was translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick. First published in 1966, displays a historical period of Egypt in the most intimate sense as it is persesnted through the lives of the characters that inhabit the alley. Although the book is set in the early forties it possesses a tas ...

Part two of term paper
... life is forever revolving. persents a diversity of chracters that creates the atmosphere that it is a whole life and a complete portray of a functioning Egyptian socity of the forties. Mahfouz successfully relates the events in with the outside world by refering to politics. This is illustrated when he states that -at this period of the Egyptian history, working girls were usually jewish-they were the starting flare that began modernization. The materialistic insentive that characterized most of ...