A mourner holds a newspaper showing a photograph of Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, who died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at a funeral prayer ceremony held at the al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, for his novels depicting Egyptian life in his beloved corner of ancient Cairo. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
