Mahfouz
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Mahfouz is a surname
, it may refer to one of the following people:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
, it may refer to one of the following people:
- Khalid bin MahfouzKhalid bin MahfouzKhalid bin Mahfouz was a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman residing in Ireland. He was accused of supporting al-Qaeda.As of 2002, he was believed to be confined in a hospital in Taif by Saudi authorities...
, a Saudi businessman - Naguib MahfouzNaguib MahfouzNaguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...
, a Nobel Prize winning Egyptian novelist - Naguib Pasha MahfouzNaguib Pasha MahfouzNaguib Mikhail Mahfouz is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula.-Early life:Mahfouz was born to a Coptic Christian family on the January 5, 1882 in the city of Mansoura in the delta of Egypt. He joined Kasr El Aini Medical School in 1898,...
, an Egyptian obstetrician and gynecologist - Sabir Mahfouz LahmarSabir Mahfouz LahmarSabir Mahfouz Lahmar is a Bosnian citizen, who won his habeas corpus after being eight years and eight months in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
, an Algerian-born naturalised Bosnian citizen currently detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba