I Found Myself... The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz Groundswell Speaker 2024 untethered

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Learn to write your name in hieroglyphs

and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning

lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land

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I Found Myself... The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz Groundswell Speaker 2024 untetheredAfter an assassination attempt in his twilight years, Naguib Mahfouz became a recluse, going out rarely and receiving visitors in his hotel. Cautious and in ill health, he could only roam the city freely in his dreams. In this mix of vivid vignettes linked together by the author's precisely rendered nightly wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz's personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt's political past and future. Each dream is