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• The Author of Half a Day is Naguib Mahfouz
• Naguid Mahfouz was born in Egypt 1911
• Naguid Mahfouz studies philosophy at the university of Cairo
• Naguib Mahfouz can be considered the best-known and most studies Arab novelist in Arabic Literature
• Naguib Mahfouz took a Civil service job and wrote fiction in his spare time
• Unmarred means not destroyed or busted
• Stern and grim means dreadful and dark
• Scowl means pout or frown
• Throngs mean crowds or groups
• hordes mean large groups of people
• conjurers mean magicians
• Cohesive devices are linking words in a sentence that connects ideas
• cohesive devices are also called

  Linking words

  Connectors

  Connectives

  Discourse marker

  Signal words of transitional words
• The types of Cohesive devices are

  Transitions that show time and sequence

  Transitions that show Place and Position

  Transition that show Comparison and Contrast

  Transition that signal cause and effect

  transition that add, repeat, and emphasize
• The family house serves as a model for the Abd A;-Jawad family in The Cairo Triology
• He expressed his criticisms through his work from the revolution in 1919
• In 1920 he published "The Cairo Trilogy" when they moved to Abbasiya
• Mahfouz began writing in primary school
• Mahfouz was a fan of detective, historical, and adventure novels
• His model in second grade was Taha Hussein and Ibrahim Al-Mazzini
• His favorite writers were Shakespeare, conrad, melville, flaubert, stendhal, tolstoy, proust, O'neill, shaw, Ibsend, and strindberg
• He worked on 25 screenplays
• In 1988 he got nobel prize for literature
• More than 30 of egyptian films were released based on Mahfouz's novels
• Transitions that limit or prepare for an example - exemplification
• transitions that assert truth or acknowledge opposition - concession
• Exemplification, concession, inference, Summary/conclusion, result, replacement, transition