''Palace of Desire'' () is a novel by

Egyptian ''Egyptian'' describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...

writer

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through wo ...

, and the second installment of Mahfouz's '' Cairo Trilogy''. It was originally published in Arabic in 1957.

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Novels by Naguib Mahfouz 1957 novels Arabic-language novels Novels set in Cairo {{1950s-family-novel-stub