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Husni, Ronak,

Modern Arabic short stories : a bilingual reader / Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman. - 296 pages ; 21 cm

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.

ISBN: 9780863564369 (pbk.)

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Short stories, Arabic--Translations into English.

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Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 892.730108 / HUS