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082 0 4 _a892.730108
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100 1 _aHusni, Ronak,
_eauthor.
_941926
245 1 0 _aModern Arabic short stories :
_ba bilingual reader /
_cRonak Husni, Daniel L. Newman.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bSaqi Books,
_c2008.
300 _a296 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _aThis 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
546 _aText in English and Arabic.
650 7 _aShort stories, Arabic
_vTranslations into English.
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653 _bHHUUEENN
_cNovember2018
655 _vReading book
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700 1 _aNewman, Daniel L.,
_eauthor.
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