is naguib mahfouz already know me?

Question

this question seem more into egyptians, but seem this novelist had won nobel prize, i decided to ask this question on this yahoo answers. i really love this novelist, but i cant really read all of his novel because i am a malaysian which arabic is not my native language. but i bought his english version novels, a lot. but i still feel that i need to know more about his novels, like watching his novel adaptation movies. but i dont know where can i get those movies. so, is there anyone that can help me in this? and again, ive search on the internet about his novel translations but i didnt find it. is anybody know where can i get the novels tranlations for free through the internet?

to mentzel 63: i think you should be in my place right now, living in egypt. because you will now about him here. this is his hometown, giving birth here, living here, married here, and passed away here. almost all of his single novel had became a movie except son of the alley or in other translation son of gabalawi. that y i said that this question is more into egyptians. but the movies are all arabic.

Answer 1

The Book:
First published in 1947 in Arabic, Midaq Alley is about the Egyptian residents of a hustling, teeming back alley in Cairo in the 1940's. The attempts of several residents to escape the alley and move up in status end with dreams broken and unfulfilled, but the book captures a great slice of life in the Cairo of the first half of this century.

The Movie:

In 1994, Midaq Alley was adapted to screen by Mexican filmmaker Jorge Fons and won a Special Mention at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. Transferred from 1940s Cairo to contemporary Mexico City, the action revolves around the parallel and often intertwined lives of a bar owner, a spinster, and the local beauty. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

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Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died today at the age of 94. I met him in December. He was at the back of a bar in a Cairo hotel on the Nile, and in the orange glow of the dark room he pressed his eyelids together like a cat dozing in the sun. He'd fallen at home earlier in the day, and he seemed fragile.

His friends were concerned for his health, especially Raymond Stock. Raymond is an American academic and Mahfouz's biographer and translator. It is worth noting that for all the boilerplate criticism of Orientalism and how Western writing on the Middle East implicitly subjugates the Arab world, two of Mahfouz's most careful scholars, and greatest admirers, are Westerners. Professor Menahem Milson is an Israeli academic here in Jerusalem and the author of another biography of Mahfouz, and Raymond is a Michigan native who has made Cairo his home these last dozen years. On this day, Raymond had invited me to meet Mahfouz and I asked along my friend Muhammad, a 26-year-old Egyptian journalist and intellectual. Mahfouz is part of his heritage, just as the pyramids are, and he had never seen his hero up close.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

i dont think that any of mahfuz's novels became movies. at least i never heard about any of them. i love the books, i read them all.