From Spring 1995 Explore This Issue Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1988 By Naguib Mahfouz From the Spring 1995 Issue Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was named the 1988 Nobel Laureate of Literature. His story “Umm Ahmed” (pp. 21–34) has never before appeared in an English translation. ← Brodsky and the Grounding of Poetry → Naguib Mahfouz: Life in the Alley of Arab History