In league with the best

Two Arab renowned writers are listed on the best 100 books written in the past century. Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz and Sudanese El-Tayeb Saleh's novels are among the "most meaningful books of all time" according to a list released by the Nobel Peace Prize Institute.

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Naguib Mahfouz
Sudanese novelist

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