The Devil Turns Preacher

Available for the first time in English, the only collection of plays by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz remains a literary icon, as the only Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A prolific writer of fiction, he has been celebrated across the globe for his novels and short stories, which have been translated into over 40 languages worldwide. What is known by very few is that he made a foray into drama: he wrote eight one-act plays in the 1960s and 1970s. They were perf