The Jordan church attack: Looking beyond the trigger

On October 14, 1994, an 82-year-old Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Naguib Mahfouz, was attacked when a 21-year-old Egyptian electrician named Mohammed Nagi Mustafa approached him and plunged a knife into his neck.

Mahfouz was renowned for spending his life writing about Egyptian society, its people, and their struggles, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature.