Cairo Trilogy

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The Cairo Trilogy (Arabic: الثلاثية 'The Trilogy' or ثلاثية القاهرة 'The Cairo Trilogy') is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. It is one of the best known works of his literary career.

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The Cairo Trilogy was first translated into Hebrew between 1981 and 1987. Mahfouz was very satisfied by this and saw it as another proof that the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 should be supported. The English translation was published by Doubleday in the early 1990s. The translators were:

The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, an editor at Doubleday at the time, and Martha Levin.[1]

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  1. "Hutchins mss". www.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-14.