Naguib Mahfouz Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. Wikipedia Born : December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt Died : August 30, 2006, Agouza, Giza, Egypt Movies : Chitchat on the Nile , The Alley of Miracles , more Awards : Nobel Prize in Literature Quotes You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. “A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.” ―KHUFU’S WISDOM We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ...