About the Book: In his final decade—after surviving a 1994 assassination attempt—Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz found his health ebbing but his creativity undiminished. He captured his nocturnal wanderings through Cairo in a collection of dreamlike vignettes—brief, haunting fragments where figures from his past, political anxieties, and spiritual reflections converge. These poetic sketches paint a layered portrait of his inner world: rich with love, loss, hope, and the restless memory of a city he could roam only in sleep.