Mubarak: "Naguib Mahfouz is one of the immortal icons ... he has reaped the fruits of his gifts for Egypt." The President, in public statements of Osama Saraya, editor in chief of al-Ahram: "Egypt will not forget what one of its most distinguished sons of the human thinking has made the gift. " 1
Egypt has every reason to this great writer and Nobel laureate truly autochthonous to be proud of. It is a pity that a not inconsiderable part of the Egyptian population, this man would prefer promoted before his natural death in the afterlife. It should be recalled only to the crimes committed by an Islamist attack on Mahfouz in 1994. This is, unfortunately, to the truths that are official in Egypt, probably does not hear so much.
- Quote of the front page of the international edition of Egyptian daily al-Ahram of 01.09.2006 [ ← ]
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