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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels depicting Egyptian life in Cairo, died Wednesday at age 94. Mahfouz was known for moderation and religious tolerance. In 1994, an attacker inspired by a militant cleric's ruling that a Mahfouz novel was blasphemous stabbed the author. Mahfouz survived and maintained a busy schedule well into his 90s. His health declined after he suffered a head injury last month.