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Current issue | Previous issue | Site map. The unforgiving patriarch, the belly dancer; the forced smile, the smile sincere; kebab, whisky, and, above all, perhaps, a city so intent on its transformation as to have ended up beyond recognition: Naguib Mahfouz's fictional world, the Egypt and the Cairo of his novels accommodates them all, and much, much more. ................
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