The Cairo Trilogy

The topic The Cairo Trilogy is discussed in the following articles:

discussed in biography

  • TITLE: Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian writer)

place in Arabic literature

  • TITLE: Arabic literature
    SECTION: The novel
    ...of ways. He started with the social realism of his “quarters” novels, each one set in a different section (quarter) of the old city of Cairo, which culminated in the justly famous Cairo Trilogy (1956–57). He then turned to a more symbolic mode in his novels of the 1960s (with examples such as Al-Liṣṣ wa al-kilāb...