What a lot of graves there are laid out as far as the eye can see!. Their headstones are like hands raised in surrender, though they are beyond being… - Naguib Mahfouz

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What a lot of graves there are laid out as far as the eye can see!. Their headstones are like hands raised in surrender, though they are beyond being threatened by anything. A city of silence and truth, where success and failure, murderer and victim come together, where thieves and policeman lie side by side in peace for the first and last time.

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About Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ‎ Nagīb Maḥfūẓ, IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Native Name: نجيب محفوظ
Alternative Names: Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha Najīb Maḥfūẓ naguib mahvuz mahfoud najib naguib mahfoud Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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في غمار جدل سياسي سأل أحد النواب وزيرًا :
- هل تستطيع أن تدلني على شخص طاهر لم يلوث؟
- فأجاب الوزير متحديا.
- إليك - على سبيل المثال لا الحصر - الأطفال والمعتوهين والمجانين فالدنيا ما زالت
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