![]() ![]() ![]() Abbas, a young, kindly barber who wants to get married, joins the British army to make money to be able to marry Hamida.Uncle Kamil, good-hearted, bachelor sweets-seller, famously bloated and sleepy.Kirsha, a café owner who illegally sells and uses hashish and has a predilection for young boys.Mahfouz is not satirizing the individual character – he is satirizing the character type. The novel takes place in the 1940s and represents standing on the threshold of a modern era in Cairo and the rest of the nation as a whole.Įach character is expressed like a caricature in which one quality or trait is over-emphasized. ![]() It centers around the list of characters described below. The novel is introduced with description of the Arab culture. The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as a microcosm of the world. Midaq Alley ( Arabic: زقاق المدق, romanized: Zuqāq al-Midaqq) is a 1947 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, first published in English in 1966. ![]()
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