* Associated Press report dated 31 August 2006 on Naguib Mahfouz's funeral

* Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy ( Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street ), is first published.

Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer, published in 1941 a story entitled " Awdat Sinuhi " translated by Raymond Stock in 2003 as " The Return of Sinuhe " in the collection of Mahfouz's short stories entitled Voices from the Other World.

* Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz's 1967 novel Miramar focuses on the lives of the long-term residents of the eponymous pensione in Alexandria in the 1960s.

At the beginning of Naguib Mahfouz's novel Palace Walk, Ahmad Abd al-Jawwad says " What a fine man Prince Kamal al-Din Husayn is!

The absence of a maternity unit at Kasr El Aini hospital was great handicap to Naguib Mahfouz's work.

The Thief and the Dogs (; El-lis's wa el-kilab ) is one of the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's most celebrated works.

However, the Free Officers ' increasing influence in the army, together with Naguib's reputation, resulted in the defeat of the king's nominees, and Naguib won with a landslide victory.

* Naguib Mahfouz on his English publisher's website

Muhammad Naguib assumed public authority as the leader of the new revolutionary government, becoming the first President of Egypt on 18 June 1953.

Most of the RCC, including Naguib, insisted on making an example of the riot's two ringleaders by executing them, but Nasser firmly opposed this.

* Naguib Mahfouz, Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth ( 1985 ) Nefertiti is one of the characters who reflects on Akhenaten and the Amarna period

The first president of Egypt was Muhammad Naguib, one of the leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, who took office on 18 June 1953, the day on which Egypt was declared a republic.

Muhammad Naguib (, ) ( 19 February 1901 – 28 August 1984 ) was the first President of Egypt, serving from the declaration of the Republic on June 18, 1953 to November 14, 1954.

Naguib spent his formative years in Sudan, where, as a child, ostriches and monkeys were his playmates, in a house decorated with hunting trophies like elephant tusks, tiger-skin rugs and rhinoceros and gazelle heads on the wall.

At this time, Naguib chose Napoleon as a role model, even deciding to sleep on the floor instead of on a bed to imitate the great French general.

Any illusions Naguib might have had about the nature of Farouk's rule evaporated on 4 February 1942 after a standoff at Abdeen Palace in Cairo between the British and the king.

While on active service in Palestine, Naguib would dedicate 30 minutes every morning to reading the Qur ' an, a habit he picked up in childhood, to strengthen his resolve in times of adversity.

Despite his disapproval of his fellow military top brass, Naguib remained in the army in order for the Free Officers not to lose their highest-ranking officer and most influential member, although many today argue that his position on the top was merely a figurehead leader to the revolutionary Free Officers Movement to lend credibility to the group.

Finally on 6 January 1952, Naguib won the elections at the army Officers ' Club, almost a revolutionary step in itself, since ordinarily the king's appointees held the executive roles in the Club.

After an awkward silence on the deck of the royal yacht El-Mahrousa, Naguib reminded Farouk that until the 1942 standoff with the British the army had been loyal to the monarchy, but that things had changed since then.

Ali Maher's government resigned on 17 September 1952 and Naguib was appointed Prime Minister.

In addition, although on paper Naguib appeared to wield a lot of power, being simultaneously president and prime minister, his authority was curtailed by the fact that he needed a majority vote of the RCC for any decision to be taken, and his opinion was often ignored.

Nine months later, Naguib refused to continue the charade, and on 14 November he stepped down for the last time, this time into a life of dispossession and oblivion.

Naguib Mahfouz ( Egypt ) novelist, Edward Said eminent scholar on Orientalism ( Palestine )

Naguib Mahfouz was a prolific author on a wide variety of subjects ranging from urinary and faecal fistulae, spinal analgesia, fibroids, ectopic pregnancy, gynaecological malignancies, pelvic infections and caesarean sections.

As Mahfouz could not make it to London because of lack of transport during World War II, the Royal College of Surgeons Council unusually enough conferred the degree on Naguib Mahfouz in Cairo.

The attempt on Nasser's life gave his popularity a much-needed boost, enabled him to prevail in his power struggle with Naguib, and provided him with the perfect opportunity to eliminate the Brotherhood.

Whereas Egypt's first President Muhammad Naguib exhibited a preference for using Standard Arabic in his public speeches, his successor Gamal Abdel Nasser was renowned for using the vernacular, and punctuating his speeches with traditional Egyptian words, and expressions.

Denys Johnson-Davies ( Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز ) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

* Literature – Naguib Mahfouz

Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, a 1985 novel by Nobel Literature Laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1999, Zewail became the third Egyptian to receive the Nobel Prize, following Anwar Sadat ( 1978 in Peace ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( 1988 in Literature ).

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz has most if not all of his works translated after he won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

* Naguib Mahfouz ( 1911 – 2006 ), awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature

It was translated into English by the American University in Cairo Press in 2000, after winning the 1998 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

Received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for Memory of the Flesh in 1998.

Category: Recipients of Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

The Caine prize is supported by four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature acting as patrons: Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J. M. Coetzee.

* Nobel Prize in Literature 1988: Naguib Mahfouz

Idris won the 1997 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel City of Love and Ashes.

Category: Recipients of Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature