The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley

Since it was first published in Egypt in 1959, Naguib Mahfouz's novel <em>Children of the Alley</em> has been controversial: banned; allowed to be sold; sold under the counter; pirated; illegally reprinted, and the author’s life was threatened. This book examines that history and opens “... a window onto some of the fiercest debates around culture and religion to have taken place in Egyptian society over the past half-century.”