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بين القصرين

بين القصرين

by نجيب محفوظ

1985IslamaffairscourtesansProstitutionlaw school
4.0
Open Library
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About this book

Palace Walk (Arabic: بين القصرين, romanized: Bayn al-Quṣrayn, lit. 'Between Two Palaces') is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into English by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny, and then published by Doubleday (publisher) in 1990. The book's Arabic title translates into 'between two palaces'. The setting of the novel is Cairo around the time period of World War I. It begins in 1917, during World War I, and ends in 1919, the year of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The novel is written in a social realist style and reflects the social and political setting of Egypt in during 1917 to 1919. ---------- Contained in: [The Cairo trilogy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599697W)

Themes & subjects

IslamaffairscourtesansProstitutionlaw schoolnationalism
First published 1985

Characters & people

Setting

CairoEgyptCairo (Egypt)EgiptoEarly 20th centuryEarly Twentieth Century19171919

About the author

نجيب محفوظ
نجيب محفوظ

1911 – 2006

نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز إبراهيم أحمد الباشا (11 ديسمبر 1911 – 30 أغسطس 2006) هو كاتب مصري. يُعد أول مصري وعربي حائز على جائزة نوبل في الأدب. كتب نجيب محفوظ منذ الثلاثينات واستمر حتى 2004. تدور أحداث جميع رواياته في مصر وتظهر فيها سمة متكررة، هي الحارة التي تعادل العالم. كتب نجيب محفوظ أكثر من ثلاثين رواية اشتهرت غالبيتها وتم إنتاجها سينمائيًا أو تلفزيونيًا وكانت أول رواياته هي عبث الأقدار (1939)، أما آخرها، فكانت قشتمر (1988)، كما كتب أكثر من عشرين قصة قصيرة وكان آخرها أحلام فترة النقاهة (2004). ومن أشهر أعماله: بداية ونهاية (1949)، والثلاثية (1956–1957)، وأولاد حارتنا (1959)، والتي مُنعت من النشر في مصر منذ صدورها وحتى وقتٍ قريب، واللص والكلاب (1961)، وثرثرة فوق النيل (1966)، والكرنك (1974)، …

Author

نجيب محفوظ

First published

1985

Pages

499

Read time

≈ 12h

Editions

37

Languages

English, Arabic, French

Publisher

Anchor Books

ISBN

9788427036222

Where to buy

TR
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Around the web

ar.wikipedia.org No longer preserved: A retrospective of Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Palace Walk’ (غير محفوظ: “بين القصرين”, كتاب نجيب محفوظ) Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz - Elle Thinks booksyo.wordpress.com thegreatestbooks.org complete-review.com

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