Writing
Naguib Mahfouz
December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006 · aged 94 Cairo, Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz, (born December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt—died August 30, 2006, Cairo), Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the first Arabic writer to be so honoured.