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From: Dylan McGinty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yesterday the New York Times ran a good article about the great writer Naguib Mahfouz... You can access it at: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/books/16MAHF.html Naguib Mahfouz: The Passage of the Century is a recent documentary film about the only Arab to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Author of the acclaimed "Cairo Trilogy," "The Harafish," "Arabian Nights and Days" and many other novels and collections of short stories, Naguib Mahfouz weaves the threads of his life together with his view of society, his childhood, his discovery of literature (Egyptian and Western), the city of Cairo (which he left only three times in his life), Islamic fundamentalism, the evolution of Egypt, the role of women, and the future of civilization. MORE INFO ABOUT FILM: http://frif.com/new2001/nag.html First Run / Icarus Films, Inc. 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn NY 11201 Tel........................(718) 488 8900 / (800) 876 1710 Fax.......................(718) 488 8642 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web....................http://www.frif.com --- You are currently subscribed to african-cinema-conference as: [archive@jab.org] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
