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Modern Arabic short stories : a bilingual reader / Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English, Arabic Publisher: London : Saqi Books, 2008Description: 296 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780863564369 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 892.730108 HUS 22
Contents:
The tale of the lamp / ʹIzz al-Dīn al-Madanī -- A lonely woman / Zakariyyā Tāmir -- The sacred tree / Muḥammad al-Zafzāf -- Excerpt from The book of the dead / Ibrāhīm al-Faqih -- Qismati and Nasibi / Najīb Maḥfūẓ -- Yasmine's picture / Ḥanān al-Shaykh -- The night and the sea / Muḥammad Shukrī -- At the theatre / Idwār al-Kharrāt -- Ancestral hair / Salwā Bakr -- A hidden treasure / Fu'ād al-Takarlī -- Night of torment / Laylā al-'Uthmān -- A tray from Heaven / Yūsuf Idrīs.
Summary: This volume contains a collection of twelve stories by contemporary masters from Morocco to Iraq. In addition to works by writers already well-known in the West such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fuad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize-winning Naguib Mahfouz, key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East are also included. The collection features stories in both English and Arabic, prefaced by a brief author
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Includes bibliographical references.

The tale of the lamp / ʹIzz al-Dīn al-Madanī --
A lonely woman / Zakariyyā Tāmir --
The sacred tree / Muḥammad al-Zafzāf --
Excerpt from The book of the dead / Ibrāhīm al-Faqih --
Qismati and Nasibi / Najīb Maḥfūẓ --
Yasmine's picture / Ḥanān al-Shaykh --
The night and the sea / Muḥammad Shukrī --
At the theatre / Idwār al-Kharrāt --
Ancestral hair / Salwā Bakr --
A hidden treasure / Fu'ād al-Takarlī --
Night of torment / Laylā al-'Uthmān --
A tray from Heaven / Yūsuf Idrīs.

This volume contains a collection of twelve stories by contemporary masters from Morocco to Iraq. In addition to works by writers already well-known in the West such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fuad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize-winning Naguib Mahfouz, key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East are also included. The collection features stories in both English and Arabic, prefaced by a brief author

Text in English and Arabic.

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