Mahfouz, Naguib Filmography

• Hadith Alsabah wa Almassaa
  2001, role: writer
• El Callejón de los Milagros
  1995, role: writer
• Principio y fin
  1993, role: writer
• Al-gough
  1986, role: writer
• Wasmat Aar
  1986, role: writer
• Asr el-houb
  1986, role: writer
• Love on the Pyramids Plateau
  1984, role: writer
• Ayoub
  1983, role: writer
• Ahl el qema
  1981, role: writer
• Al shaytan yaez
  1981, role: writer
• Al sharida
  1980, role: writer
• Al karnak
  1975, role: writer
• Thartharah fawq al-Nil
  1971, role: writer
• Al-ikhtiyar
  1970, role: writer
• Kasr El Shawk
  1967, role: writer
• El saman wal karif
  1967, role: writer
• Al-Kahira thalatin
  1966, role: writer
• Bayn el kasrain
  1964, role: writer
• Al-tareek
  1964, role: writer
• El Naser Salah el Dine
  1963, role: writer
• Zouqâq al-Midaqq
  1963, role: writer
• El less wal kilab
  1962, role: writer
• Bidaya wa nihaya
  1961, role: writer
• Bayn el samaa wa el ard
  1960, role: writer
• El tarik el masdud
  1958, role: writer
• Djamilah
  1958, role: writer
• El fatawa
  1957, role: writer
• El namrud
  1956, role: writer
• Gaaluni mujriman
  1955, role: writer
• Darb al-mahabil
  1955, role: writer
• El wahsh
  1954, role: writer
• Raya wa Sekina
  1953, role: writer
• Mughamarat Antar wa Abla
  1948, role: writer

Famous quotes by Naguib Mahfouz:

"an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."

"Happy is he who can give himself up."

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."

"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."

"According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment."

"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."

"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."

"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."

"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."

"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."

"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."

"I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat."

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."

"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."

"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."

"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."

"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."

"We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights."