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Alexander believed that his empire would stop only when he reached the Pacific Ocean

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The Beginning and the End Reference works Alexander believed that his empireNaguib Mahfouz Set in Cairo during World War II, this novel is a masterpiece of human compassion reflecting with sympathy and well balanced pathos the material, moral, and spiritual problems of an Egyptian family. Suddenly confronted with poverty when the father, its sole support, dies unexpectedly, the family's middle class respectability and conformity can only be supported on the backs of a brother and a sister who sacrifice their own reputations