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Appalachian State University issued the following news release:
Appalachian State University Assistant Professor Miral Al-Tahawy has received the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her book "Brooklyn Heights." The annual award recognizes the best contemporary novel published in Arabic and is presented by the American University in Cairo Press.
Al-Tahawy teaches Arabic in Appalachian's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature consists of a silver medal and a cash prize, as well as translation and publication of and English-language edition of Al-Tahawy's work. It was presented Dec. 11 by the president of the American University in Cairo at a ceremony attended by Egypt's Minister of Culture and other prominent Egyptian leaders.
Al-Tahawy was born to a Bedouin family in the Egyptian Delta region. As a young woman, she could not leave her home without the accompaniment of a male relative,...