Civil Service
Mahfouz left academia and joined the Egyptian civil service, in which he continued till 1972. He served in the Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, as Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and finally as a consultant to the Ministry of Culture.
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