What is "mahfouz"

Mahfouz is a surname, it may refer to one of the following people:

• Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi businessman
• Naguib Mahfouz, a Nobel Prize–winning Egyptian novelist
• Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, an Egyptian obstetrician and gynecologist
• Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, an Algerian-born naturalised Bosnian citizen currently detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba