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Which of us is not at first welcomed into the world like a king of kings, to be later carried wherever ill fortune decrees. This is one of nature's wisest treacheries. Were it to show us first what is in store for us, we would all refuse to leave the womb.
MIDAQ ALLEY by naguib mahfouz
#midaq alley#naguib mahfouz#egyptian literature#african literature#arabic literature#birth#suffering#cynicism#futility#fortune#luck#fate
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Slight review of the Midaq Alley:
I'm mainly writing this post bc I had a rather unsatisfying discussion about it in this new book club I'm attending, and if anyone knows the book and would like to offer some insights I'm all ears.
So, I found the book very hard to read because most of the characters treat each other horribly, and think about each other even worse.
There is the coffee house owner, who screams at his wife all the time, their son who is disgusted by their poverty but feels superior bc he's in the army, the bakeress who hits her husband, the single mother who disdains her friend and landlord, the illegal dentist who liles to cause pain, the girl that can only think about materialistic wealth etc. etc.
Every single one seems to be unable of seeing a situation from anyone else's perspective, and their actions often seem very alien to me.
A lot of that is explained by the cultural difference, of course - I think I don't have a particular good understanding of the socioeconomic situation in late 40s Cairo, and knowing that makes expressing my thoughts difficult.
But sometimes it seems that Machfus just wrote a book about a bunch of people he really did not like at all.
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Luis Felipe Tovar in Midaq Alley (1995)
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23 books for 2023
this could never be an exhaustive list, but I thought I’d jot down some books I’m excited to get to this year -- and we’ll see how many I really hit! as a side note, this doesn’t include any series I’m planning to continue/read from more, like tana french or cixin liu.
Corregiodora by Gail Jones
Hiver à Sokcho [Winter in Sokcho] by Elisa Shua Dusapin << read her Vladivostok Circus instead and enjoyed it, so just postponing this one for next year
Der Zug war pünktlich [The Train Was on Time] by Heinrich Böll << in progress
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager << dnf. did not even get very far. great concept but could not get on with the writing
The Life of Arsenyev [Жизнь Арсеньева] by Ivan Bunin
The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Marriage by Susan Ferrier
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić << in progress
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
Désorientale [Disoriental] by Négar Djavadi << in progress
The Lviv Saga [Львівська сага] by Petro Yatsenko
Bleu blanc vert [Blue White Green] by Maïssa Bey
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople by Patrick Leigh Fermor
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
A Home for Dom [Дім для Дома] by Victoria Amelina
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Asia & Haiti by Will Alexander
Wound [Рана] by Oksana Vasyakina
Ghost Music by An Yu << read her Braised Pork and thought it was just ok, so will not be reading this one any time soon
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
and because there’s no rule that says you can’t start a tag thing if you weren’t tagged in one, i shall tag @dauen, @canonicallyanxious, @nonbinaryjomarch, @queenofattolia, @booksnpictures, @fluencylevelfrench and anyone else who wants to do the same xD
#tag thing#books#allie reads#i'm curious what people are excited for#also i wonder how much i'll actually follow the list at all here
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2024 (23)
fictions (jorge luis borges) - 10/10
a raisin in the sun (lorraine hansberry) - 9/10
memory for forgetfullness (mahmoud darwish) - 10/10
black friend: essays (ziwe) - 10/10
are prisons obsolete? (angela y. davis) - 10/10
waiting for godot (samuel beckett) - 10/10
the garden party (vaclav havel) - 9/10
dust tracks on a road (zora neale hurston) - 9/10
wild thorns (sahar khalifeh) - 10/10
everything good will come (sefi atta) - 10/10
men in the sun and other palestinian stories (ghassan kanafani) - 10/10
minutes of glory and other stories (ngugi wa thiong'o) - 10/10
midaq alley (naguib mahfouz) - 9/10
a man of letters (taha hussein) - 7/10
the beggar's opera (vaclav havel) - 8/10
soul gone home (langston hughes) - 8/10
mulatto (langston hughes) - 10/10
the weary blues (langston hughes) - 9/10
the quarter (naguib mahfouz) - 10/10
pedagogy of the oppressed (paulo freire) - 10/10
after midnight (irmgard keun) - 9/10
a gentleman in moscow (amor towles) - 7/10
peace and its discontents (edward said) - 10/10
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Alley
One character who represents the force of good in Mahfouz’s novel is Radwan Husseini, the landlord. A man of great wisdom and compassion, he councils everyone in Midaq Alley. Why is the author sending Husseini to Mecca and Medina, rather than any other of the alley’s sinning and corrupt inhabitants? What’s his implicit message?
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urgent Tbrrrr:
covering islam
midaq alley
the heart is a lonely hunter
the headmaster’s wager
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fwiw to that other anon who said she doesn't care about the dynamics of a romance novel as long as the characters and dynamics are good, I really don't think that inherently makes someone bisexual.
People have different levels of attachment/different interactions with media they consume. I know for sure I'm a lesbian and I feel similarly about reading romance because I read for entertainment and not as some sort of escape where I want to put myself into the main character's shoes, so I don't really care if the romantic lead is a man because I'm not trying to see myself as dating the romantic lead. I just want to read something interesting. I've found that personally, my main criteria is that I gravitate towards books written by women, because men written by men are a little too much like real life men (and they write women so offensively), whereas men written by women are not. I also find heterosexual sex scenes in live-action movies and tv to be revolting because I have to look at a physical man with my eyes. And I do find myself way more emotionally invested in romances between two women.
i think it comes down to diff things like u mentioned,, i personally find media that is male-centric quite boring inherently. i also dont like seeing het sex scenes or kissing scenes or even romantic scenes lool it always made me cringe and feel weird and uncomfortable. i generally just dont care for stuff if it involves men even if animated or sth else. havent rly noticed how i feel about stuff written by women vs stuff written by men tho but thats probably bc the romance stuff ive read has generally been by women n the stuff by men ive read was generally not so romantic (stuff like 1984, brave new world, midaq alley... not stuff ive read out of care for the romance at all but moreso the world they built).
but i agree with u that i dont think it necessarily makes anon bi. but its just an anon ask and u cant rly know someones sexuality from an anon ask. plus ppl's perceptions tend to change the more they understand themselves n their sexuality.
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Lit & Found: Hadil Ghoneim Talks to Trevor LeGassick
Lit & Found: Hadil Ghoneim Talks to Trevor LeGassick
JUNE 24, 2022 — On Tuesday, scholar and translator Trevor LeGassick died after battling cancer. He was 86.
LeGassick, one of the early translators of Arabic literature into English, was the first translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley (later translated by Humphrey Davies), co-translator of Emile Habibi’s The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, with Salma Khadra Jayyusi, as well as works…
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Salma Hayek
Midaq Alley (1995) (also released as The Alley of Miracles) - Story by: Naguib Mahfouz
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WITH VALENTINE’S DAY AROUND THE CORNER, GET IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE WITH A SELECTION OF ROMANTIC FEATURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING THE STREAMING PREMIERE OF MIDAQ ALLEY, STARRING SALMA HAYEK
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This February, Film Movement Plus invites viewers to get in the mood with a selection of romantic features from around the world:
MIDAQ ALLEY (FILM MOVEMENT PLUS PREMIERE) – Starring Salma Hayek
A NY THING – Starring Greta Gerwig
HELENA FROM THE WEDDING – Starring Gillian Jacobs, Corey Stoll
IF YOU DON'T, I WILL – Starring Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos
MY ART – Starring Laurie Simmons, Lena Dunham and Parker Posey
MY LOVE, DON'T CROSS THAT RIVER
MY MISTRESS – Starring Emmanuelle Béart
NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING – Starring Karen Gillan
SENSATION – Starring Domhnall Gleeson
THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN – Starring Vicky Krieps
THE PILLOW BOOK – Starring Ewan McGregor and Vivian Wu
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE – Starring Rose Byrne
#film movement plus#film movement#svod#streaming#now streaming#spotlight#trailers#valentines day#midaq alley#salma hayek
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Digital Noise Episode 203 - A Very Aaron Christmas Tweet Pin It read more on One of Us
#blackkklansman#Blu-Ray#Chillers#Christopher Robin#Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings#Digital Noise#DVD#Gas Food Lodging#heavy trip#Lasso#Midaq Alley#movie review#Nothing Sacred#Pixar Shorts 3#podcast#Rankin-Bass#The Meg#The Original Christmas Specials#TV#Blu-ray#film
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Midaq Alley 1995
أو زقاق المدق عن رائعة نجيب محفوظ وبطولة سلمى حايك، ومن إخراج المكسيكي: Jorge Fons
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Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs, Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
--Books I Had to Buy Because I Realized I Don’t Own Anything by One of my Favorite Authors
Three Mahfouz novels that my library didn’t have, so when I found this in a used book store I had to buy it. Plus, look at that cover, classic vintage styling.
I started out my Mahfouz journey with three of his short novels set in ancient Egypt and then the Cairo modern trilogy (starts with Palace Walk). I love his language, I love him nuanced presentations of people’s lives and personalities. I adored his allegorical Children of the Alley/Children of Gebelawi, the story of the Abrahamic religions, which is what led to an attempt on his life.
#books#reading#booklr#naguib mahfouz#midaq alley#the thief and the dogs#miramar#egypt#literature#my library#favorite authors
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# 70 - Midaq Alley (Jorge Fons, 1995)
#midaq alley#el callejón de los milagros#jorge fons#midaq alley (1995)#salma hayek#ernesto gómez cruz#maría rojo#bruno bichir#delia casanova#film#films in 2017#movie#cadwalladery
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