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title: "Cairo Modern"
brand: "naguib mahfouzwilliam m. hutchins"
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# Cairo Modern

**Brand:** naguib mahfouzwilliam m. hutchins
**Price:** B/.59
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- **What is this?** Cairo Modern by naguib mahfouzwilliam m. hutchins
- **How much does it cost?** B/.59 with free shipping
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Cairo Modern

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    In the end, you are exactly--what you are
  

*by L***3 on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2008*

Put on a wig with a million curls,put the highest heeled boots on your feet,yet you remain in the end just what you are.Goethe, Faust."Cairo Modern", written in 1945, is one of the great Naguib Mahfouz's earlier works.  It is set in Cairo in the 1930s, a turbulent time when the old, decaying monarchical order and British dominance of Egypt entered its last stages.  The social order was changing and burgeoning Egyptian nationalists, political radicals and religious zealots rubbed elbows with each other in a society on the edge of a radical transformation.  Mahfouz took a snapshot of that society and the result is a book that seemed as entertaining as it was informative.As noted accurately in the Product Description, the book unfolds like the beginning of a movie. It begins with a long-range view of the King Fuad University. It is evening and the sun shines off the golden dome of the main building. Slowly we zoom into the campus as student leave at the end of the day. It then zooms to a group of friends who, we soon discover in the next few brief chapters, represent a cross-section of modern Cairo (at least that section able to attend university.)  The story eventually turns its focus upon Mahgub Abd al-Da'im. Mahgub is hungry in every sense of the word. He is hungry for success or at least the trappings of success and as his family's modest economic means are destroyed by an illness in the family he also finds himself hungering for a decent meal.  He also hungers for a beautiful girl, Ihsan, who barely knows he exists.  He settles instead for renting affection from a girl on the streets.  Ihsan is a modern girl, with modern aspirations. She is also an admirer of western art and literature, including Goethe. This reference is not accidental as Ihsan and Mahgub are asked to enter into a Faustian bargain that on its face seems to provide them with what they each feel they most need. The rest of the novel deals with the consequences of their bargain."Cairo Modern" was a wonderful book.  As with Mahfouz's most famous work, The Cairo Trilogy 
  
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)







  
  
    ,
  
Palace of Desire (Cairo Trilogy II)







  
  
    , and 
  
Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy, 3)







  
  
    , I found myself swept into the streets of Cairo and felt as if I had a real sense of the place and people Mahfouz wrote about.  I could feel the aspirations of the primary characters and had a real sense of the changing world that they lived in.  I've read most of Mahfouz's work and, even if it is smaller in scope than Cairo Trilogy or Children of the Alley, it is still a brilliant vignette of Cairo during a tumultuous moment in time.  It is well worth reading.  L. Fleisig

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great book
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2016*

Book was dreadfully slow to pick up but upon its climax it is no reason other than the quick rise and fall of characters to blame.The book became a page turner that made ones heart turn with every page. Riveting.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Brilliant writer
  

*by A***O on Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2013*

This writer makes me enjoy something from Middle East culture to the one I am totally ignorant. There are displayed big psychological themes that concern to humanity but with the different view because religion.The constant duality between good and evil, specially greed- A writer value to read not only once in our life

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