The Cairo Trilogy  The topic The Cairo Trilogy is discussed in
the following articles:  discussed in biography    • TITLE:
Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian writer)  place in Arabic literature
• TITLE: Arabic literature     SECTION: The novel     ...of
ways. He started with the social realism of his “quarters”
novels, each one set in a different section (quarter) of the old
city of Cairo, which culminated in the justly famous Cairo
Trilogy (1956–57). He then turned to a more symbolic mode in his
novels of the 1960s (with examples such as Al-Liṣṣ wa al-
kilāb...