Comments on: And the Arab world loses some more… http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/ Another Casualty to the Seduction Of Art Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Giladhttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/comment-page-1/#comment-3992 Gilad Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:57:32 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/#comment-3992 Very sad to hear of Nobel-Prize winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz passing awayA brave person,whose support of peace with Israel led some Arab countries to ban his worksMay he always be remembered Very sad to hear of Nobel-Prize winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz passing away

A brave person,whose support of peace with Israel led some Arab countries to ban his works

May he always be remembered

]]> By: كنعانيhttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/comment-page-1/#comment-3961 كنعاني Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:38:21 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/#comment-3961 I think that people know best whose funerals to march in, I was hoping that this will happen, and I was so glad to see it. I think that people know best whose funerals to march in, I was hoping that this will happen, and I was so glad to see it.

]]> By: abdelkareem nabil soliman ( kareem amer )http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/comment-page-1/#comment-3959 abdelkareem nabil soliman ( kareem amer ) Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:33:13 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/08/31/and-the-arab-world-loses-some-more/#comment-3959 i think that naguib mahfouz was killed , not died , he killed many years ago when the radical islamists try to make the simple people who make them the charachters of his novels look at his as KAFIR because of his great novel " awlad 7aretna " , and the great problem is the situation of egyption government which prevent this novel till few years ( i think it printed legtimatly 1 years ago when naguib mahfouz ask one of MB movement to write an introduction for this novel !! )... no one can deny that naguib mahfouz was great in his field , but he was not stand much against the tyranny in egypt , he was known tolerated to the authority , but we can consider his novels his own way to resist this unacceptable politics . i like him so much , cause that he give another meaning to the name of our country , it is not only land of pharohs and old temples and pyramyds , there is too writers and thinkers and novelists who can prrove that egypt also have minds ... i read his introduction to the last ahmed zewails previous arabic book which prented by DAR EL SHOROOK " scince era " or 3asr el 3elm , in arabic , i note that he was thogh his bad health he was communicate with latest books .... we will not forget you YA 3AM NAJEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEB i think that naguib mahfouz was killed , not died , he killed many years ago when the radical islamists try to make the simple people who make them the charachters of his novels look at his as KAFIR because of his great novel ” awlad 7aretna ” , and the great problem is the situation of egyption government which prevent this novel till few years ( i think it printed legtimatly 1 years ago when naguib mahfouz ask one of MB movement to write an introduction for this novel !! )…
no one can deny that naguib mahfouz was great in his field , but he was not stand much against the tyranny in egypt , he was known tolerated to the authority , but we can consider his novels his own way to resist this unacceptable politics .
i like him so much , cause that he give another meaning to the name of our country , it is not only land of pharohs and old temples and pyramyds , there is too writers and thinkers and novelists who can prrove that egypt also have minds …
i read his introduction to the last ahmed zewails previous arabic book which prented by DAR EL SHOROOK ” scince era ” or 3asr el 3elm , in arabic , i note that he was thogh his bad health he was communicate with latest books ….
we will not forget you YA 3AM NAJEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEB

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