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He was, in fact, a veritable crouching tiger, willing to cringe and fawn until he mastered his adversary, and woe to anyone he did master! Experience… - Naguib Mahfouz
" "He was, in fact, a veritable crouching tiger, willing to cringe and fawn until he mastered his adversary, and woe to anyone he did master! Experience had taught him that this gentleman and others like him were enemies with whom must be friendly. They were, as he put it, useful devils.
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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
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Najīb Maḥfūẓ
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naguib mahvuz
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mahfoud najib
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naguib mahfoud
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Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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