{"id":40799,"date":"2022-05-13T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestivalberlin.de\/authors\/nabil-naoum\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:07:17","slug":"nabil-naoum","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/nabil-naoum\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabil Naoum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nabil Naoum<\/strong> was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1944.\u00a0 He studied Engineering in Cairo and then went to the United States, where he worked as an engineer in New York for ten years. During this time he wrote his first short stories, some of which were published in Egyptian literary magazines.\u00a0 In 1977 his first novel, &#8216;Al-b\u00e2b&#8217; (Engl: The Door) came out, in Egypt.\u00a0 In 1979 he returned to Cairo, where he opened a gallery for modern art and turned more seriously towards writing.\u00a0 In the 1980\u2019s he published a series of short story collections, among them for example the French-Arabic volume &#8216;Le Caire est petit&#8217; (1985; Engl: Cairo is Small).\u00a0 A collection of twenty stories came out in English translation under the title &#8216;The Slave\u2019s Dream and Other Stories&#8217; (1991).\u00a0 Nabil Naoum\u2019s narratives are infused with subtle and objective irony.\u00a0 He foregoes detailed descriptions of landscapes, places and customs.\u00a0 Thus events, even when Egypt is named, can only vaguely be located. Instead, his texts unfold largely detached from real clues, in their own space and time.\u00a0 The characters too are only roughly sketched out and only over the course of a story does their distinct character emerge, all the same, the reader comes to know little about their emotional and mental worlds.\u00a0 Most of Naoum\u2019s stories are constructed via a linear narrative flow.\u00a0 Without the moral appraisal of a higher entity, surprising turns take place which suddenly open up room for the horrible and nightmarish.\u00a0 In the novel &#8216;Jasad Awal&#8217; (1998) the architect and writer Fouad, upon his return from abroad reunites with his family, in particular the older relatives, who are again sharing life and housing. Being thus confronted with loss, old age and death, he searches for a fusion between the secular and the otherworldly.\u00a0 The protagonists of his most recent novel &#8216;Hafat el wed&#8217; (2000) are driven by their longing for love.\u00a0 They are ensnarled in a web of seduction, power, and unfulfilled longing.\u00a0 In addition to his prose, Nabil Naoum has published several essays on contemporary Arab art and photography.\u00a0 Since 2000 he has been a member of the selection committee of the Biennale for Arabic Film at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.\u00a0 Nabil Naoum has lived in Cairo and Paris since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 international literature festival berlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[496],"jct-ilb-years":[598],"class_list":["post-40799","authors","type-authors","status-publish","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-egypt","jct-ilb-years-2004-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nabil Naoum &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/nabil-naoum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nabil Naoum &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nabil Naoum was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1944.\u00a0 He studied Engineering in Cairo and then went to the United States, where he worked as an engineer in New York for ten years. 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