Yesterday -- Naguib Mahfouz's birthday -- they announced the winner of this year's Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, awarded by the American University (with, as part of the prize, AUC Press undertaking to publish an English translation of the winning work).
No word yet at the official site, last I checked, but at her Arabic Literature (in English) M. Lynx Qualey reports Ezzat El Kamhawi's 'House of al-Deeb' [بيت الديب] Wins 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal.
No word yet at the official site, last I checked, but at her Arabic Literature (in English) M. Lynx Qualey reports Ezzat El Kamhawi's 'House of al-Deeb' [بيت الديب] Wins 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal.