He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

This year for the first time the Palestinian Festival of Literature, or PalFest, was held in Gaza.

The Rivers State College of Arts and Science in Port Harcourt gained polytechnic status in 2006.

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Today marks the centenary of Egyptian Nobel laureate and leading novelist Naguib Mahfouz. The occasion is being remembered on Twitter.

He attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before graduating from the University of Washington in 1934, with a degree in speech and drama.

The vision which we have for a better world is best described in the words of a great son of India, the great poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

Although there are descriptions of dining etiquette on special occasions, less is known about the details of day to day meals of the elite or about the table manners of the common people and the destitute.

On Sunday, a Cairo misdemeanors court fined author Magdy el Shafei and publisher Mohamed Sharkawi 5000 Egyptian pounds ( 900) and demanded the confiscation of the novel after accusing them of writing and distributing a novel, which included statements and phrases considered offensive to public morals.

Since it was founded in 2008, the festival's aim has been to bring together Palestinian and international authors, and it organises public events in the evenings and creative writing workshops for Palestinian students during the day.

Born on December 11, 1911, Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. The prolific writer published more than 50 novels and 350 short stories, as well as five plays and scores of movie scripts in his career, which spanned 70 years.