Midaq Alley
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Midaq Alley is a novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that portrays the intertwined lives of residents in a poor Cairo neighborhood during the 1940s.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel → |
| adaptationCountry | Mexico → |
| adaptationLanguage | Spanish → |
| adaptedAs |
Midaq Alley
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surface form: "Midaq Alley (1995 film)"
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| author | Naguib Mahfouz → |
| countryOfOrigin | Egypt → |
| depicts | intertwined lives of residents in a poor Cairo neighborhood → |
| explores |
impact of World War II on Cairo society
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migration and desire to escape poverty → tension between traditional values and modern influences → |
| genre |
psychological fiction
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realist novel → social novel → |
| hasAlleyAsSymbol | microcosm of Egyptian society → |
| hasCharacter |
Abbas
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Hamida → Hussain Kirsha → Kirsha → Radwan Hussainy → Salim Alwan → Sheikh Darwish → Uncle Kamil → |
| hasTitleInArabic | Zuqāq al-Midaqq → |
| literaryForm | prose fiction → |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
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surface form: "Egyptian realism"
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| literarySignificance | major work in modern Arabic literature → |
| mainTheme |
aspiration and disillusionment
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class struggle → gender roles → poverty → social change → tradition versus modernity → urban life → |
| NaguibMahfouzReceived | Nobel Prize in Literature → |
| narrativeStyle | third-person omniscient → |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1988 → |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of a small alley community
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portrayal of lower-middle-class Cairene life → |
| originalLanguage | Arabic → |
| partOf |
The Harafish
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surface form: "Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo novels"
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| publisher | Dar al-Maaref → |
| settingCountry | Egypt → |
| settingLocation | Cairo → |
| settingTimePeriod | 1940s → |
| structure | ensemble cast narrative → |
| targetAudience | adult readers → |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Midaq Alley (1995 film)"
this entity surface form: "Cairo alley"
this entity surface form: "Cairo alley"