Approaches to teaching the works of Naguib Mahfouz / edited by Waïl S. Hassan and Susan Muaddi Darraj.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Materials. Early years -- Novels and short stories -- Memoirs, interviews, and articles -- Mahfouz and cinema -- Mahfouz in translation -- Resources for teachers -- Approaches. Introduction -- Contexts -- Teaching a seminar on Mahfouz / Wail S. Hassan -- Teaching Mahfouz as world literature / Michelle Hartman -- Mahfouz's novels and the nation / Terri DeYoung -- Enduring left melancholia: Mahfouz's The beggar and the Nasserite intellectual / Nouri Gana -- Mahfouz's posts / Shaden M. Tageldin -- Mahfouz and The Arabian nights tradition / Justin St. Clair -- Teaching specific texts. Hamida's options: Egyptian futures versus British interests in Mahfouz's Midaq Alley / Barbara Harlow -- Teaching Mahfouz: style in translation / Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward -- Christ and the Abrahamic legacy in Children of the alley / Nabil Matar -- Teaching Mahfouz's "Zaabalawi" / Roger Allen -- Homage to Ibn alFarid: nostalgia in "Zaabalawi" / Michael Beard -- Miramar and postcolonial melancholia / Elliott Colla -- Miramar: a pension at the intersection of competing discourses / Hala Halim.

Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world's best-known writer and the single most important chronicler and analyst of twentieth-century Egypt. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and since then his work has been increasingly studied in North American university classrooms. This first volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature to focus on an Arab author or Arabic literature provides an introduction to Mahfouz. In part 1, "Materials," the editors discuss Mahfouz's background, influence, and critical reception. In part 2, "Approaches," the volume's contributors offer information, resources, and insights for teaching his work. Topics covered include the Arabian Nights tradition in Mahfouz's work, the challenge of teaching Mahfouz in English translation, the Nasserite intellectual in The Beggar, the image of Alexandria in Miramar, the bitterness of British occupation in Midaq Alley, and the quest of Sufism in "Zaabalawi."