From Cairo with love
CAIRO - Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, in one of his mature works, "The Beggar," depicts a radical change in the life of a lawyer. Omar, the lawyer, leads a successful and steady yet rather dull existence with his wife and two daughters. All of a sudden he decides to open himself up to new experiences by womanizing and then drifting into a life of seclusion. "The Beggar" is considered a political novel, telling of intellectual disappointment experienced by many in Egypt after