Respected Sir, Rhadopis of Nubia, Miramar, Midaq Alley, Children of Gebelawi, The Thief and the Dogs, Cairo Trilogy, Arabian Nights and Days, Khufu's Wisdom, The Day the Leader was Killed, The Search, The Beggar, The Harafish, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Adrift on the Nile, Dreams of departure, Mirrors (novel), The Beginning and the End, Karnak Café, Stories from Our Neighbourhood, Wedding Song, Autumn Quail, Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, The Mirage
Nobel Prize in Literature, Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Grand Collar of the Order of the Nile, Honorary doctorate from the University of Cairo, Cavafy Award, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Derekte súwretlengen
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Larousse Encyclopedia online, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (19 ed.), Dictionary of African Biography, Obálky knih, Africa: An Encyclopedic Reference
