{"id":1561,"date":"2006-08-30T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2006-08-30T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:43:18","slug":"2006-8-30-naguib-mahfouz-1911-2006-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Naguib Mahfouz, 1911-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Naguib Mahfouz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=a0HQ7Kzjo6Zk&amp;refer=muse\">passed away<\/a> this morning after more than a week of hospitalization, finally succumbing to complications that included internal bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good essay about Mahfouz on the<a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/articles\/mahfouz\/index.html\"> Nobel Prize site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>I have a reflection on Mahfouz on the Guardian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/issandr_el_amrani_\/2006\/08\/post_324.html\">Comment is Free<\/a> website and was also interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/langues\/statiques\/rfi_anglais.asp\">Radio France International&#8217;s English broadcast<\/a> about his significance in Egypt and the Arab world. Let me know what you think. The funny thing is that while I&#8217;m not actually a great fan of Mahfouz&#8217;s work, I loved the man and his persona. If you really want to know tons of great anecdotes about him, pick up Gamal Ghitani&#8217;s recent book (in Arabic only, for now) about the literary salons he held throughout his life, which Ursula wrote about <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/08\/21\/al-ustez\/\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Naguib Mahfouz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=a0HQ7Kzjo6Zk&amp;refer=muse\">passed away<\/a> this morning after more than a week of hospitalization, finally succumbing to complications that included internal bleeding.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a good essay about Mahfouz on the<a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/articles\/mahfouz\/index.html\"> Nobel Prize site<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore later.<br \/>\n<strong>Update: <\/strong>I have a reflection on Mahfouz on the Guardian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/issandr_el_amrani_\/2006\/08\/post_324.html\">Comment is Free<\/a> website and was also interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/langues\/statiques\/rfi_anglais.asp\">Radio France International&#8217;s English broadcast<\/a> about his significance in Egypt and the Arab world. Let me know what you think. The funny thing is that while I&#8217;m not actually a great fan of Mahfouz&#8217;s work, I loved the man and his persona. If you really want to know tons of great anecdotes about him, pick up Gamal Ghitani&#8217;s recent book (in Arabic only, for now) about the literary salons he held throughout his life, which Ursula wrote about <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/08\/21\/al-ustez\/\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}