R.I.P. Naguib Mahfouz

[Steven]

	The 'then 82 year old writer' is the relevant phrase...I've had his  
trilogy recommended more than once and mean to read it someday.  Has  
anyone here a good word to say for it?

	Steve--I think also of the aged Klinghoffer on his cruise...stupid  
bastards.


On Aug 30, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

> an attacker inspired by a militant cleric's ruling that one of  
> Mahfouz's novels was blasphemous stabbed the then-82-year-old  
> writer as he left his Cairo home. The attack damaged the nerves  
> leading to his right arm, effectively putting an end to his former  
> practice of writing for hours in longhand.

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