Al-Mayara (1972) المرايا

Arabic
By: Naguib Mahfouz
Softcover
339 pp
Dar Al Shorouk, Egypt
14.5 x 21.5 cm
977-09-1590-4
Short Stories

Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life -- a writer very like Mahfouz himself. And accompanying each vignette is a portrait of the character by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli.