Naguib Mahfouz

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic…

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education…

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the…

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening…

I’ve never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a…

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with…

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but…

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake…

I defend both the freedom of expression and society’s right to counter it. I must…

If we reject science, we reject the common man…

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club…

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism…

Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story…

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in…

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have…