tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post676195509461872913..comments2024-02-20T10:31:15.121-05:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: For Naguib Mahfouz' 100th, An Interview With His BiographerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-80798113348598188682012-12-11T00:42:38.249-05:002012-12-11T00:42:38.249-05:00Many thanks, Michael. I was very grateful and impr...Many thanks, Michael. I was very grateful and impressed that you devoted so much space to this interview (and asked such good questions on short notice). I feel the same that you have re-posted it now. I hope your many discerning readers enjoy it.<br /><br />One thing I should have corrected before: the Naguib Mahfouz Award in Literature ceremony was held last December 11 at al-Sawy Cultural Wheel in Zamalek, not at its usual place in Oriental Hall at AUC's Tahrir campus. This year (today) it will also be in Zamalek, but at the AUC Hostel. There are major demonstrations to be held today as well: let's hope that they do not prevent this most crucial annual event from taking place. Especially this year, when Naguib Mahfouz's anniversary is evidently being largely neglected otherwise in Egypt.Raymond Stockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197920999759267122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-21199941797314569292012-12-11T00:33:55.316-05:002012-12-11T00:33:55.316-05:00Many thanks, Michael. I was very grateful and impr...Many thanks, Michael. I was very grateful and impressed that you devoted so much space to this interview (and asked such good questions on short notice). I feel the same that you have re-posted it now. I hope your many discerning readers enjoy it.<br /><br />One thing I should have corrected before: the Naguib Mahfouz Award in Literature ceremony was held last December 11 at al-Sawy Cultural Wheel in Zamalek, not at its usual place in Oriental Hall at AUC's Tahrir campus. This year (today) it will also be in Zamalek, but at the AUC Hostel. There are major demonstrations to be held today as well: let's hope that they do not prevent this most crucial annual event from taking place. Especially this year, when Naguib Mahfouz's anniversary is evidently being largely neglected otherwise in Egypt.Raymond Stockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197920999759267122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-62556047808014317122011-12-11T02:01:10.374-05:002011-12-11T02:01:10.374-05:00I'm very grateful to the several persons who p...I'm very grateful to the several persons who posted anonymous comments: the reference to The Paris Review interviews is especially apt, as Naguib Mahfouz himself was featured in that series. I'm especially grateful to the one who was a mutual friend of Naguib Bey. This individual--who has given me some of the important leads in my research, and who has always been dear to me, has also been in touch with me privately: I thank him very much for that. And Bent, however can I can thank enough, you not only for kind words here, but your wonderful, lifesaving friendship in Cairo, and always? You know it was a pleasure to bring you and Fanilla to see Ustaz Naguib, and I only wish we could do it again. Please give her my love too, and let's be in touch more directly soon.--Raymond Stock December 11, 2011Raymond Stockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197920999759267122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-76542976889980282982011-12-10T08:46:42.047-05:002011-12-10T08:46:42.047-05:00Dear Raymond,
I miss you terrible here in Cairo a...Dear Raymond,<br /><br />I miss you terrible here in Cairo and the interview with you reminded me of all the reasons why. <br /><br />It was an invaluable gift you gave me that you introduced me to Naguib Mahfouz and let me sit in during a few of his Nadwas. Thank you so much.<br /><br />I also send love from Fanilla. <br /><br />Surely very soon gonna meet you at Estoril for a Stella. <br /><br />ChristopherBent Christophersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13534565262107908843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-61823356771138419892011-12-10T02:20:34.321-05:002011-12-10T02:20:34.321-05:00My dear friend Raymond,
We had both good times wi...My dear friend Raymond, <br />We had both good times with Naguib Bey at Al Nadwa. I have a good American friend who is Egyptian in heart, and I am consider myself as you Egyptian friend (American in heart).<br />Alaa Al Aswany is way over rated, I think because his lefts friends in the Arab media. yaqubian Building is a good Soap Oprah Novel, and I could not finish Chicago.<br />I admired Naguib Mahfouz the person as much as I admired the writer. He was like my Godfather! God bless his soul.<br />I agree with what you wrote about Sherif Meleka, we need to promote his excellent work in the Western World.<br />Sami El-BehiriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-22004586997622939372011-12-10T00:59:53.590-05:002011-12-10T00:59:53.590-05:00Very interesting! Long live the long interview: ju...Very interesting! Long live the long interview: just think Paris Review.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-27571051300647437142011-12-10T00:24:46.421-05:002011-12-10T00:24:46.421-05:00Raymond: duly noted. I've inserted an update i...Raymond: duly noted. I've inserted an update in the text noting your comment here.Michael Collins Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398326467953722017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-86060630373941702582011-12-09T22:59:07.053-05:002011-12-09T22:59:07.053-05:00Thanks for this wonderful article about a great ta...Thanks for this wonderful article about a great talent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-63997470064676929202011-12-09T22:36:30.395-05:002011-12-09T22:36:30.395-05:00Thanks so much again, Michael. But I had meant to ...Thanks so much again, Michael. But I had meant to note that the same description I applied to Najem Wali's works, "brilliant, very intricate, vivid and powerful novels" (as well as short stories) applies to Sherif Meleka, who, like Wali, lives outside of his native land. He is a physician specializing in pain management at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, where he holds the rank of assistant professor.--Raymond Stock, December 9, 2011Raymond Stockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197920999759267122noreply@blogger.com