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The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels written by Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The three novels are, in order:
The books' titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth.
The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad and his family across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952. A central character is Kamal,the youngest son of El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad. The three novels represent the three phases of Kamal's life from childhood to youth to adulthood.
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