Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz spent 37 years as a highly disciplined employee, following the rules and teachings, as revealed by his career file, which is being published for the first time in a book. The Ministry of Awqaf, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of National Guidance, where he concealed his relationship with literature and his delegation to the delegation. He revealed that the job had deprived him of many things, but he clung to it with all his might. He sometimes engaged in battles with the bureaucracy, He also revealed the discipline kept in the holidays Both from the point of attendance obtained each year at a specified time, or discipline to return and measure an alternative to doing his job if required.
The book "Naguib Mahfouz with the stamp of the eagle - a complete narration for the first time", by the writer and editor of "Akhbar al-Adab", Tareq al-Taher, which he obtained and discussed the full file Mahfouz for the first time, including simple papers such as a request for leave, Similarly, the Nobel laureate held the post, but he was denied many things including the master's thesis on the philosophy of beauty in Islam, under the supervision of Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, including the study of law at the Music Institute. He also denied two master's degrees in France, The job in turn did not limit his literary composition, so Mahfouz wrote his request for permission In an aesthetic form that does not belong to the bureaucratic tradition, in which he said, "I have the honor to request the approval of my regular leave, which was agreed upon from September 12, 1959 to October 1, 1959, For the time I spent on the journey to Yugoslavia », a message that reveals the word (Qana), an unusual aesthetic language in the staff files.
The file also revealed that Naguib Mahfouz, despite the assumption of his functions, and his achievement in all years to the estimate of 100% in only one year received 94%, and the absence of his record as an employee of any sanctions or punishment, as evidenced by the confidential reports obtained by the author, Since the early sixties of the last century, dreams of early retirement 10 years before reaching the legal age of the specified, to devote to literature, because the full-time for the writer is a new creation of a new approach to it, and because every writer is honest lover of literature can not be but his wish to devote to this The literature he loves.
The atmosphere of the staff world
At the personal level, the papers revealed that Naguib Mahfouz, the employee, had all the attributes of a traditional conservative, unlike the insurgency in his novels. Mahfouz concealed the fact that he was married to the community for reasons that had yet to be revealed. "The official papers stamped with the seal of the eagle, the insurance and pension form signed by Mahfouz, and his immediate boss at that time, said he was married and had a son. Her daughter Fatima, also revealed that Mahfouz and unlike m Many press publications have reported that he did not leave Egypt in his lifetime, and traveled to Yugoslavia, Yemen and London.