The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
By Denys Johnson-Davies
By Denys Johnson-Davies
By Denys Johnson-Davies
By Denys Johnson-Davies
Category: Literary Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction
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$25.00
Oct 17, 2006 | ISBN 9781400079766
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Mar 31, 2010 | ISBN 9780307481481
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (b. 1946) Egypt
from No One Sleeps in Alexandria
Mohammad Abdul-Wali (1940–73) Yemen
Ya Khabiir
Yahya Taher Abdullah (1942–81) Egypt
Rhythms in Slow Time
Leila Abouzeid (b. 1950) Morocco
The Discontented
Yusuf Abu Rayya (b. 1955) Egypt
Dreams Seen by a Blind Boy
Idris Ali (b. 1940) Egypt
from Dongola
Daisy Al-Amir (b. 1935) Iraq
The Doctor’s Prescription
Radwa Ashour (b. 1946) Egypt
I Saw the Date-Palms
Ibrahim Aslan (b. 1939) Egypt
The Little Girl in Green
from Nile Sparrows
Alaa Al Aswany (b. 1957) Egypt
from The Yacoubian Building
Liana Badr (b. 1950) Palestine
from A Land of Stone and Thyme
Hala El Badry (b. 1954) Egypt
from A Certain Woman
Salwa Bakr (b. 1949) Egypt
Dotty Noona
from The Golden Chariot
Hoda Barakat (b. 1952) Lebanon
from The Tiller of Waters
Mohammed Barrada (b. 1938) Morocco
Life by Installments
Mohamed El-Bisatie (b. 1938) Egypt
Drought
from Clamor of the Lake
Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) Morocco
Flower Crazy
Rashid al-Daif (b. 1945) Lebanon
from Dear Mr. Kawabata
Zayd Mutee‘ Dammaj (1943–98) Yemen
from The Hostage
Brahim Dargouthi (b. 1955) Tunisia
Apples of Paradise
Ahmad Faqih (b. 1942) Libya
from Gardens of the Night
Fathy Ghanem (1924–98) Egypt
Sunset
Gamal al-Ghitani (b. 1945) Egypt
from Zayni Barakat
Nabil Gorgy (b. 1944) Egypt
Cairo Is a Small City
Abdou Gubeir (b. 1950) Egypt
Have You Seen Alexandria Station?
Emile Habiby (1921–96) Palestine
At Last the Almond Blossomed
Tawfik al-Hakim (1898–1987) Egypt
from Diary of a Country Prosecutor
Yahya Hakki (1905–92) Egypt
from The Lamp of Umm Hashim
A Story from Prison
Sherif Hetata (b. 1923) Egypt
from The Net
Bensalem Himmich (b. 1949) Morocco
from The Polymath
Taha Hussein (1889–1973) Egypt
from A Man of Letters
Gamil Atia Ibrahim (b. 1937) Egypt
The Old Man
Sonallah Ibrahim (b. 1937) Egypt
from Zaat
from The Committee
Ulfat Idilbi (b. 1912) Syria
from Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet
Yusuf Idris (1927–91) Egypt
House of Flesh
from City of Love and Ashes
Walid Ikhlassi (b. 1935) Syria
The Dead Afternoon
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919–94) Palestine
from In Search of Walid Masoud
Said al-Kafrawi (b. 1939) Egypt
The Hill of Gypsies
Ghassan Kanafani (1936–72) Palestine
The Slave Fort
from Men in the Sun
Sahar Khalifeh (b. 1941) Palestine
from Wild Thorns
Edwar al-Kharrat (b. 1926) Egypt
from Rama and the Dragon
Betool Khedairi (b. 1965) Iraq
from A Sky So Close
Elias Khoury (b. 1948) Lebanon
from The Journey of Little Gandhi
Mohamed Khudayir (b. 1942) Iraq
Clocks Like Horses
Ibrahim al-Koni (b. 1948) Libya
from The Bleeding of the Stone
The Ill-Omened Golden Bird
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) Egypt
The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish
from Arabian Nights and Days
from Palace Walk
Mohamed Makhzangi (b. 1950) Egypt
The Pilot
Alia Mamdouh (b. 1944) Iraq
Presence of the Absent Man
Hanna Mina (b. 1924) Syria
from Fragments of Memory
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (b. 1953) Algeria
from Memory in the Flesh
Sabri Moussa (b. 1932) Egypt
Benevolence
’Abd al-Rahman Munif (1933–2004) saudi Arabia
from Endings
Muhammad al Murr (b. 1955) United Arab Emirates
Your Uncle Was a Poet
Buthaina Al Nasiri (b. 1947) Iraq
I’ve Been Here Before
Emily Nasrallah (b. 1931) Lebanon
A House Not Her Own
Ibrahim Nasrallah (b. 1954) Palestine
from Prairies of Fever
Haggag Hassan Oddoul (b. 1944) Egypt
Nights of Musk
Yusuf al-Qa’id (b. 1944) Egypt
Three Meaningless Tales
Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935–90) Egypt
The Whistle
Somaya Ramadan (b. 1951) Egypt
from Leaves of Narcissus
Alifa Rifaat (1930–95) Egypt
An Incident in the Ghobashi Household
Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931) Egypt
She Has No Place in Paradise
from Woman at Point Zero
Tayeb Salih (b. 1929) Sudan
from Season of Migration to the North
from Bandarshah
The Cypriot Man
Ghada Samman (b. 1942) Syria
A Gypsy without a Haven
Ibrahim Samouiel (b. 1951) Syria
My Fellow Passenger
Habib Selmi (b. 1951) Tunisia
Distant Seas
Khairy Shalaby (b. 1938) Egypt
The Clock
Hanan al-Shaykh (b. 1945) Lebanon
The Persian Carpet
from Beirut Blues
Miral al-Tahawy (b. 1968) Egypt
from The Tent
Bahaa Taher (b. 1935) Egypt
from Love in Exile
Fuad al-Takarli (b. 1927) Iraq
from The Long Way Back
Zakaria Tamer (b. 1929) Syria
A Summary of What Happened to Mohammed al-Mahmoudi
May Telmissany (b. 1965) Egypt
from Dunyazad
Mahmoud Teymour (1894–1974) Egypt
The Comedy of Death
Abdel Salam al-Ujaili (b. 1918) Syria
The Dream
Mahmoud Al-Wardani (b. 1950) Egypt
The Day Grandpa Came
Tahir Wattar (b. 1936) Algeria
from The Earthquake
Latifa al-Zayyat (1923–96) Egypt
from The Open Door
Mohamed Zefzaf (1945–2001) Morocco
Snake Hunting
Acknowledgments
Sources of Stories and Excerpts
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