Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street.
This author wrote about title character's lovers Margaret and Warda and his friendship with the socialist Othman in The Beggar. In another of his novels, Elwan is engaged to Randa and kills his boss after hearing about the assassination of Anwar Sadat, while in another, the cafe owner Tarzan befriends the recently released thief Said Mahran. This author of The Day The Leader Was Killed and The (*) Thief and the Dogs is most famous for a series of novels following the family of Abd al-Jawad from the Egyptian Revolution to the end of World War II:  Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. For ten points, identify this Egyptian author of the Cairo Trilogy.
This author wrote about title character's lovers Margaret and Warda and his friendship with the socialist Othman in The Beggar.
Naguib {Mahfouz}