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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

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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Film Writer
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Journalist
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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