Required

• Edward Said, "Foreword" to Elias Khoury, Little Mountain (only pp. x-xiv are required this week)

Recommended

Egypt

• Egypt (Wikipedia | CIA World Factbook | Encyclopedia Brittanica)
  • Egypt During World War II & History of Egypt Under the British (Wikipedia)
• Ursula Lindley, "Unreal City" (The Nation 21 March 2016): a snapshot of the current climate of repression in Egyptian arts, letters, and publishing.

Naguib Mahfouz

• Biography/Bibliography
  • Nobel Foundation (click on various "down" arrows to open a biography of Mahfouz, his 1988 Nobel Prize Lecture, a lengthy article on his place in the development of the modern Arabic novel, etc.)
  • Wikipedia
• Naguib Mahfouz links (Nobel Prize Internet Archive)
• Two articles reposted at Al Mashriq/The Levant (Østfold College, Halden, Norway):
  • Larry Luxnor, "A Nobel for the Arab Nation" (interview with Mahfouz, Aramco World Magazine, March-April 1989)
  • Edward Fox, "The Watcher on the Curb" (critical appreciation of Mahfouz's work, Aramco World Magazine, March-April 1989)
• Michelle Hartman, "Teaching Mahfouz as World Literature" (2012)