1988

Interview

Interview transcript Professor Hartmut Michel, welcome. Hartmut Michel: Thank you. You’ll have a short talk with us here today. It’s a few years now since you received the prize, in chemistry. What is it today that you have use for in what you discovered at that time or what are you using,…

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Interview

Interview transcript Professor Robert Huber, thank you for joining us here in Lindau. Today and during the Lindau Meeting there are many opportunities for young students to meet great scientists. What does it give you? Robert Huber: I like to interact, to speak with students, and I just like to encourage them…

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Prose

Excerpt from Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz Courtesy: Norstedts English Chapter One Many things combine to show that Midaq Alley is one of the gems of times gone by and that it once shone forth like a flashing star in the history of Cairo. Which Cairo do I mean? That of the Fatimids, the Mamlukes…

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Swedish Utdrag ur Midaqq-gränden I Mycket vittnar om att Midaqq-gränden är en ädelsten från gångna tider och att den en gång lyst som en strålande stjärna i Kairos ärofulla historia. Vilket Kairo menar jag? Fatimidernas? Mamluckernas? Sultanernas? Det vet endast Allah och arkeologerna men Gränden är i vilket fall ett monument och ett dyrbart sådant.…

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Arabic Excerpt from Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al-Midaq) Excerpt from Zuqaq al-Midaq Copyright © 1947 by Naguib Mahfouz Reprinted by arrangement with the American University in Cairo Press.

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Nobel Lecture

English Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1988 Read at the Swedish Academy by Mr. Mohamed Salmawy(first in Arabic, then in English) (Translation) Ladies and Gentlemen, To begin with I would like to thank the and its Nobel committee for taking notice of my long and perseverant endeavours, and I would like you to accept my talk…

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Documentary

  Excerpts from Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber – Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001. This celebratory volume was published at the occasion of Naguib Mahfouz’ 90th birthday, and is a collection of conversations between the author and his friend Mohamed Salmawy, Egyptian writer and journalist. Introduction In the early evening of Friday, 14 October…

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