Egyptian laureate’s legacy still resonates in Israel 10 years after death
Before the peace agreement, it was groundbreaking when Menahem Milson sent a letter to one of Egypt’s most prominent writers, Naguib Mahfouz.
Naguib Mahfouz smiles in his Cairo home, 19 October 1988, a few days after the announcement of his award of the Nobel Prize in Literature(photo credit: PETER OFTEDAL / SCANPIX SWEDEN / AFP)ByBEN LYNFIELD