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Time to Read More Naguib Mahfouz

I picked up and read - for reasons I don't recall - Mahfouz's Palace Walk - sometime before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988).

So, quite a spell ago.

It was nice when Mahfouz - an Egyptian whose literary influences reflect Dostoevsky and Dickens - was awarded the Prize. Sorta a "hey, I read him before people thought he was hot shit."

But the book - part of his Cairo Trilogy series (nope, haven't read others) - was a great insight for me.

I'm a Westerner, and this was a great glimpse into the Mideastern world - how (why) women are veiled, about the same hypocrisy that goes on in the West goes on (in a different guise) in the Middle East, the power of Islam and so on.

Eye opener.

Today - with the Middle East a tinderbox (not assigning blame, just reporting the facts, ma'am), this book - or others of his - should move up my reading list.

On everyone's reading lists.

OK?