Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
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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 |
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.