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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
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Journalist
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Cairo
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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