Voices From The Other World (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
Much of the Egyptian aristocracy was subsequently of mixed Turkish–Albanian blood. The pasha in “The Mummy Awakens” is most likely based upon Mohamed Mahmoud Bey Khalil (1877–1953), a millionaire Francophile collector of art who was attacked in the Egyptian press in the late 1930s for saying he wanted to will his large private gallery of mainly French paintings to the Louvre. It is now housed in his former mansion in Giza in a museum bearing his name.Aswan: A city at the Nile’s first cataract in Upper (southern) Egypt. Mahfouz here uses the pharaonic Egyptian name Abu (actually Elephantine Island at Aswan), which was the country’s southernmost outpost on the border with ancient Nubia. The historical Userkaf’s capital was at Mennufer (Memphis) close to present-day Cairo, rather than Aswan, though the royal annals of the Old Kingdom recorded on the Palermo Stone show that he kept a per (house, estate) at Abu. His only known pyramid— quarried into rubble in antiquity—was built near there, in northern Saqqara, rather than at Aswan.Broad beans: Also called horse beans (and known as ful in Arabic), these are an indispensable part of the Egyptian diet.Fuad I University: Named for King Ahmad Fuad I (r.
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