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ADRIFT ON THE NILE. Thartharah fawq al-Nil. Directed by. Hussein Kamal. Egypt, 1971. Drama. 115. Synopsis. Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
The houseboat lay still on the leaden waters of the Nile, as familiar to him as a face. To the right there was an empty space, once occupied by another houseboat before the current swept it away, and to the left, on a wide bank of the shore, a simple mosque surrounded by a mudbrick - wall and spread with shabby matting.
Adrift on the Nile Naguib Mahfouz. Doubleday Books, $21 (167pp) ISBN 978-0-385-42322-9. A keen sense of life's futility and meaninglessness gnaws at Anis Zani, a pot-smoking civil servant in Cairo ...
beshooooootvh. Size. 600x900. Language English. Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
25 de ene. de 2011 · Adrift on the Nile. by Naguib Mahfouz. They gather on the houseboat. The water pipe makes its way around the circle of people, the drug a withdrawal from the business of life. Yet Mahfouz is explicit in voicing his warning not to simply view Adrift on the Nile as the fiction of escape. It is a novel of ideas, exploring the tension of an absurd ...
Overview. Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life. Hussein Kamal. Director. Naguib Mahfouz. Story.
18 de mar. de 2016 · March 18, 2016. Every Friday, ArabLit suggests a new classic film-book combination, until we run out of steam about 20 weeks in: This week, it’s Adrift on the Nile (1971), based on the 1966 novel by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. According to film critic Hessen Hossam, the movie answers three questions: “What’s the importance of ...
