Cairo Trilogy

The Cairo Trilogy (Arabic: الثلاثية 'The Trilogy' or ثلاثية القاهرة 'The Cairo Trilogy') is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. It is one of the best known works of his literary career.

Translations

The Cairo Trilogy was first translated into Hebrew between 1981 and 1987. Mahfouz was very satisfied by this and saw it as another proof that the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 should be supported. The English translation was published by Doubleday in the early 1990s. The translators were:

• Palace Walk - William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny
• Palace of Desire - Hutchins, Olive Kenny and Lorne Kenny
• Sugar Street - Hutchins, Olive Kenny and Angele Botros Samaan

The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, an editor at Doubleday at the time, and Martha Levin.