The Last Station Jamie PeckIn July 2006, at the age of 94, Naguib Mahfouz, the grand old man of Egyptian novels and winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1988, was admitted to hospital after an apparently minor fall sustained in his home in Cairo. Among the few friends allowed regular visits to Mahfouzs hospital bedside was the writer Mohamed Salmawy, former colleague at Al Ahram newspaper and, following the failed assassination attempt in 1994 when Mahfouz had lost the
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