Download or read book Abbas's Influence upon the Alley in Naguib Mahfouz's "Midaq Alley" written by Sofia Arslan and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: The beauty of Mahfouz's characters is that they all stand out from each other. With Midaq Alley's setting in Egypt during the Second World War, the wave of modernization was strange yet captivating for every individual which holds a very important role in the novel. Torn in the shades of black and white, New and Classics, conservative minds and so called open mindedness the characters are constantly seen struggling on many levels.