6/20/2023 0 Comments Sugar street mahfouz![]() ![]() ![]() The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch Al-Sayyid (Mr.) Ahmad 'Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations, from 1919 – the year of Egyptian Revolution against the British colonizers ruling Egypt – to almost the end of the Second World War in 1944. The second novel, Qasr al-Shawq, is named after the street where his eldest son Yasin and his family live, and the third, Al-Sukkariyya, is named after the street where his daughter Khadijah and her family live. ![]() The first novel, Bayn al-Qasrayn, is named after the medieval Cairo street in the Gamaliya district where the strict socially conservative protagonist, Ahmad 'Abd al-Jawad, and his family live. The three novels' Arabic titles are taken from the names of actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth. The three novels are Palace Walk ( بين القصرين, Bayn al-Qasrayn), first Arabic publication 1956 Palace of Desire ( قصر الشوق, Qasr al-Shawq), 1957 and Sugar Street ( السكرية, Al-Sukkariyya), 1957. The Cairo Trilogy ( Arabic: الثلاثية ath-thulathia ('The Trilogy') or ثلاثية القاهرة thulathia al-Qahra) is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, and one of the prime works of his literary career. Hutchins, Olive Kenny, Lorne Kenny, Angele Botros Samaan ![]()
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