Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawqa al-Nīl,) is a 1966 book by Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The novel was later made into a 1971 film, Chitchat on the Nile. It was translated from Arabic into English in 1993 by Frances Liardet and published by Doubleday. The book follows Anis Zani who smokes kief every night with a group of friends on a houseboat on the Nile. Anis works as a... Wikipedia