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From http://www.shcn.co.uk/100days/19.htm
Children of the Alley was banned in every Arab country except Lebanon. Sheikh Omar branded Mahfouz an "Infidel." It was only a matter of time before someone would strike. One afternoon, Mahfouz was getting into a car, when he spotted someone approaching. He turned to greet him, and received a stab in the neck from a seven-inch blade that cut his carotid artery and sliced his radial nerve. The reason Mahfouz didn't die, according to his attacker (who was later executed), was because the extremist had forgotten to call out "Allah-u akbar."