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Homosexuality in the early novels of Nageeb Mahfouz
1Humanities Department, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne 32901.
Journal of Homosexuality
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Nageeb Mahfouz is the earliest novelist in Arabic to focus on the homosexual protagonist in his writing. Although the topic is objectionable in Islam, Mahfouz explores homosexuality in a sensitive manner, and reveals the transformation in his views regarding the dilemma of the homosexual protagonist in a hostile environment.