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Book Review Naguib Mahfouz is the author of the book that was translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick. First published in 1966, displays a historical period of Egypt in the most intimate sense as it is persesnted through the lives of the ....

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... successfully relates the events in with the outside world by refering to politics. This is illustrated when he states that -at this period of the Egyptian history, working girls were usually jewish-they were the starting flare that began modernization. The materialistic insentive that characterized most of the inhabitants of the alley; best seen in Hamida, who in pursuite of her dreams of wealth and dresses became Titi that belongs to Ibrahim Faraj-the pimp. Another close reference to political events is through Abbas who leaves the alley to go work for the British Army in persue of material gains-regardless of the question of paterial ...