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Featuring the work of 79 outstanding writers from all over the Arabic-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south, this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz's literary sons and daughters.--From publisher description.

Table of Contents:

• from No one sleeps in Alexandria / Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (b. 1946) Egypt
• Ya Khabiir / Mohammad Abdul-Wali (1940-73) Yemen
• Rhythms in slow time / Yahya Taher Abdullah (1942-81) Egypt
• The discontented / Leila Abouzeid (b. 1950) Morocco
• Dreams seen by a blind boy / Yusuf Abu Rayya (b. 1955) Egypt
• from Dongola / Idris Ali (b. 1940) Egypt
• The doctor's prescription / Daisy Al-Amir (b. 1935) Iraq
• I saw the date-palms / Radwa Ashour (b. 1946) Egypt
• The little girl in green from Nile sparrows / Ibrahim Aslan (b. 1939) Egypt
• from The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany (b. 1957) Egypt
• from A land of stone and thyme / Liana Badr (b. 1950) Palestine
• from A certain woman / Hala El Badry (b. 1954) Egypt
• Dotty Noona ; from The golden chariot / Salwa Bakr (b. 1949) Egypt
• from The tiller of waters / Hoda Barakat (b. 1952) Lebanon
• Life by installments / Mohammed Barrada (b. 1938) Morocco
• Drought ; from Clamor of the lake / Mohamed El-Bisatie (b. 1938) Egypt
• Flower crazy / Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003) Morocco
• from Dear Mr. Kawabata / Rashid al-Daif (b. 1945) Lebanon
• from The hostage / Zayd Mutee' Dammaj (1943-98) Yemen
• Apples of paradise / Brahim Dargouthi (b. 1955) Tunisia

• from Gardens of the night / Ahmad Faqih (b. 1942) Libya
• Sunset / Fathy Ghanem (1924-98) Egypt
• from Zayni Barakat / Gamal al-Ghitani (b. 1945) Egypt
• Cairo is a small city / Nabil Gorgy (b. 1944) Egypt
• Have you seen Alexandria station? / Abdou Gubeir (b. 1950) Egypt
• At last the almond blossomed / Emile Habiby (1921-96) Palestine
• from Diary of a country prosecutor / Tawfik al-Hakim (1898-1987) Egypt
• from The lamp of Umm Hashim ; A story from prison / Yahya Hakki (1905-92) Egypt
• from The Net / Sherif Hetata (b. 1923) Egypt
• from The polymath / Bensalem Himmich (b. 1949) Morocco
• from A man of letters / Taha Hussein (1889-1973) Egypt
• The old man / Gamil Atia Ibrahim (b. 1937) Egypt
• from Zaat ; from The committee / Sonallah Ibrahim (b. 1937) Egypt
• from Sabriya: Damascus bitter sweet / Ulfat Idilbi (b. 1912) Syria
• House of flesh ; from City of love and ashes / Yusuf Idris (1927-91) Egypt
• The dead afternoon / Walid Ikhlassi (b. 1935) Syria
• from In search of Walid Masoud / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919-94) Palestine
• The hill of gypsies / Said al-Kafrawi (b. 1939) Egypt
• The slave fort ; from Men in the sun / Ghassan Kanafani (1936-72) Palestine
• from Wild thorns / Sahar Khalifeh (b. 1941) Palestine
• from Rama and the dragon / Edwar al-Kharrat (b. 1926) Egypt
• from A sky so close / Betool Khedairi (b. 1965) Iraq
• from The journey of little Gandhi / Elias Khoury (b. 1948) Lebanon
• Clocks like horses / Mohamed Khudayir (b. 1942) Iraq
• from The bleeding of the stone ; The ill-omened golden bird / Ibrahim al-Koni (b. 1948) Libya
• The conjurer made off with the dish ; from Arabian nights and days ; from Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Egypt
• The pilot / Mohamed Makhzangi (b. 1950) Egypt
• Presence of the absent man / Alia Mamdouh (b. 1944) Iraq
• from Fragments of memory / Hanna Mina (b. 1924) Syria
• from Memory in the flesh / Ahlam Mosteghanemi (b. 1953) Algeria
• Benevolence / Sabri Moussa (b. 1932) Egypt
• from Endings / ʼAbd al-Rahman Munif (1933-2004) Saudi Arabia
• Your uncle was a poet / Muhammad al Murr (b. 1955) United Arab Emirates
• I've been here before / Buthaina Al Nasiri (b. 1947) Iraq
• A house not her own / Emily Nasrallah (b. 1931) Lebanon
• from Prairies of fever / Ibrahim Nasrallah (b. 1954) Egypt
• Nights of musk / Haggag Hassan Oddoul (b. 1944) Egypt
• Three meaningless tales / Yusuf al-Qaʼid (b. 1944) Egypt
• The whistle / Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935-90) Egypt
• from Leaves of narcissus / Somaya Ramadan (b. 1951) Egypt
• An incident in the Ghobashi household / Alifa Rifaat (1930-95) Egypt
• She has no place in paradise ; from Woman at point zero / Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931) Egypt
• from Season of migration to the north ; from Bandarshah ; The Cypriot man / Tayeb Salih (b. 1929) Sudan
• A gypsy without a haven / Ghada Samman (b. 1942) Syria
• My fellow passenger / Ibrahim Samouiel (b. 1951) Syria
• Distant seas / Habib Selmi (b. 1951)Tunisia
• The clock / Khairy Shalaby (b. 1938) Egypt
• The Persian carpet ; from Beirut blues / Hanan al-Shaykh (b. 1945) Lebanon
• from The tent / Miral al-Tahawy (b. 1968) Egypt
• from Love in exile / Bahaa Taher (b. 1935) Egypt
• from The long way back / Fuad al-Takarli (b. 1927)
• A summary of what happened to Mohammed al-Mahmoudi / Zakaria Tamer (b. 1929) Syria
• from Dunyazad / May Telmissany (b. 1965) Egypt
• The comedy of death / Mahmoud Teymour (1894-1974) Egypt
• The dream / Abdel Salam al-Ujaili (b. 1918) Syria
• The day grandpa came / Mahmoud Al-Wardani (b. 1950) Egypt
• from The earthquake / Tahir Wattar (b. 1936) Algeria
• from The open door / Latifa al-Zayyat (1923-96) Egypt
• Snake hunting / Mohamed Zefzaf (1945-2001).

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Contributors:

Johnson-Davies, Denys

Languages:

English
Arabic

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Arabic

Subjects:

Arabic fiction — Translations into English

Arabic fiction

Genres:

Translations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-486).

Physical Description:

xx, 486 pages ; 20 cm

Call Numbers:

PJ7694.E8 A53 2006

ISBNs:

9781400079766
1400079764 (trade pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2006043980

OCLC Numbers:

65341272