13 September 2004
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
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Palace Walk forms the first part of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, which follows the family of Al-Sayid Ahmad from the beginnings of Egyptian independence in the First World War to the ascendancy of Nasser and the Suez crisis of the fifties.
Transcript
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Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, he has been influenced by many Western writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Camus, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and, above all, Proust. He has more than thirty novels to his credit, ranging from his earliest historical romances to his most recent experimental novels. In 1988, Naguib Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Reader: Michael Habib
Concludes 8 October
Sound Engineer: Tom Henry
Producer: Christopher Williams
