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Najib Mahfouz was an Egyptian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988. He composed 34 (Thirty four) novels, over 350 (Three Hundred Fifty) short stories, dozens of movie scripts and five plays over a 70 (Seventy) year career. He was a son of middle class merchant. Perhaps this is the reason for which the background of Najib Mahfouz’s thoughts is bound by the middle class of Egyptian intellectuals with nationalism perspective, freedom and modernism, especially about women. Najib Mahfouz’s concerns on women are a historical response to enlighten women by reviewing their functions and roles constituted in a cultural strategy. He questions again the existence of Egyptian women posed in his structured novel that illustrates the changes of three generations from the twentieth to the fortieth decades within the 20th century whose background is historical social structure. He describes one new world perspective particularly in middle class women reflecting the Egyptian society.