a reporter at large
Man of Gamaliya
In Cairo, Milton Viorst visits the novelist Naguib Mahfouz, whose symbolic novels explore Egypt’s struggle against colonialism.
July 2, 1990
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a reporter at large
In Cairo, Milton Viorst visits the novelist Naguib Mahfouz, whose symbolic novels explore Egypt’s struggle against colonialism.