'Karnak Cafe' awakens painful memories of 1967 war
Late Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's angriest novel on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published 40 years later for the first time in English translation
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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Forty years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the American University in Cairo Press has published Naguib Mahfouz's angriest novel about the crisis for the first time ever in English translation. The plot of "Karnak Cafe" spans the days before, during and after the war, as experienced by the denizens of a Cairene coffee shop.
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