Marriage
Mahfouz remained a bachelor until the age of 43. The reason for his late marriage was that he laboured under the conviction that with its numerous restrictions and limitations, marriage would hamper his literary future. In 1954, he married an Egyptian woman, Atiya, with whom he had two daughters, Faten and Umm Kalthum.
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