MIRRORS

by Naguib Mahfouz
illustrated by Seif Wanli
edited by Sherif Boraie
Hardcover and Paperback| 192 pages | 50 illustrations | 17×24 cm | English
1999 | isbn 9774245334
with AUC Press

One of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s more unusual works. First published in serialized form, it consists of vignettes of characters from a writer’s life. Accompanying each vignette is a portrait by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli. This was Mahfouz’s first foray back into writing after Egypt’s cataclysmic defeat in the 1967 War.