Midaq Alley (novel)

Midaq Alley

First English edition
Author	Naguib Mahfouz
Original title	زقاق المدق
Translator	Trevor Le Gassick
Language	Arabic
Publisher	Khayats, Beirut (1966)
Publication date	1947
Publication place	Egypt
Published in English	1966
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	286 pp
OCLC	438354830
Dewey Decimal	892/.736 20
LC Class	PJ7846.A46 Z4813 1992

Midaq Alley (Arabic: زقاق المدق, romanized: Zuqāq al-Midaqq)^[1] is a 1947 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, first published in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as a microcosm of the world.