Children of Gebelawi
An allegorical novel retelling the history of the Abrahamic religions through the generations of one Cairo neighbourhood, by the 1988 Nobel laureate; also published as Children of the Alley.
Why it was banned: Banned in Egypt after its serialisation in 1959; it was first published as a book in Lebanon in 1967, and not in Egypt until 2006.
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At a glance
- Shelf status
- In print
- Banned by
- A government
- Banned in
- Egypt
- Why it was banned
- Banned in Egypt after its serialisation in 1959; it was first published as a book in Lebanon in 1967, and not in Egypt until 2006.
- Author
- Naguib Mahfouz
- First published
- 1959
- Shelf note
- In print; ban history from the public record.
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Library record on Open Library
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