Re: Naguib Mahfouz is gone....
- From: "Count 1" <omnipitus2002@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:06:12 GMT
"Bob Cooper" <rcooper1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:m9FJg.6493$SZ3.1408@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
....so I guess his bodyguards will be seeking new jobs. No matter.stereotypes
Mubarak's security detail can always use a few new men.
They gave him a big funeral on TV.
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http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060831-080013-8748r
Egypt bids farewell to Arab literary giant Mahfouz
Riad Abu Awad
AFP
August 31, 2006
FAREWELL: Naguib Mahfouz, celebrated as one of the greatest writers
in modern Arab literature, died at the age of 94, August 30. Cairo's
district of Nasr City was blocked off to traffic as Mahfouz was given a
fully fledged national funeral August 31.
CAIRO -- Egypt bade farewell Thursday to its Nobel prize-winning novelist
Naguib Mahfouz, celebrated as one of the greatest writers in modern Arab
literature, who died at the age of 94.
Cairo's district of Nasr City was blocked off to traffic as Mahfouz, who
died Wednesday after weeks of illness, was given a fully fledged national
funeral, attended by President Hosni Mubarak and top officials.
The author's coffin was wrapped in an Egyptian flag and briefly carried
on a horse-drawn hearse down a soldier-lined street in the capital, as the
official procession walked slowly behind.
Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of Al Azhar mosque led the funeral
"prayer for the absent" at nearby Rashdan mosque as Egypt mourned
the world's foremost Arab writer and one of its most renowned
ambassadors.
The procession, broadcast live on national television, was preceded
by a more intimate religious ceremony when around 200 people
gathered at the Al Hussein mosque in old Islamic Cairo for the public
funeral that Mahfouz had requested before his death.
(...)
US President George W. Bush said "the writings of this extraordinary
author of novels, short stories, and film scripts transcend all
and show the deepest insight into the lives of Egyptians and of all
mankind."
(...)
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether
a man is wise by his questions."
-- Naguib Mahfouz
Thanks Mr. Cooper. That's an excellent quote.
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