Republic & After · event 8 of 14

1988

Mahfouz wins the Nobel. Naguib Mahfouz, who set the Cairo Trilogy in the streets around Khan el-Khalili, becomes the only Arabic-language writer to win the literature prize.

The Republic & After era

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  2. 1956
  3. 1961
  4. 1967
  5. 1971
  6. 1973
  7. 1981
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  10. 25 January 2011
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