{"id":1728,"date":"2006-08-31T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/08\/31\/obit-naguib-mahfouz-94-egyptian-novelist\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T04:34:00","slug":"obit-naguib-mahfouz-94-egyptian-novelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/08\/31\/obit-naguib-mahfouz-94-egyptian-novelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit: Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/1600\/060830_Obit_MahfouzTN.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/200\/060830_Obit_MahfouzTN.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Mahfouz is the only Arab to have ever been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was also the oldest living recipient of the award. A critic of Egyptian society and Islamic Fundamentalism, in 1994 Mahfouz, then 82, was stabbed in an assassination attempt over perceived blasphemy in his 1959 novel <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Children of Gebelawi<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Media Services has a good documentary about his life and views of society &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Naguib Mahfouz: The Passage of the Century  VHS 5365<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahfouz is the only Arab to have ever been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was also the oldest living recipient of the award. A critic of Egyptian society and Islamic Fundamentalism, in 1994 Mahfouz, then 82, was stabbed in an assassination attempt over perceived blasphemy in his 1959 novel Children of Gebelawi. Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}