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Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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PT. 1. THE PIONEERS. The highway robber / Marun `Abboud
The
little gods / Dhannoun Ayyoub
The
snake / Mahmoud Badawi
My sleepless nights / `Ali al-Du`aji
The
mailman / Tawfiq al-Hakim
The
divining stones / Yahya Haqqi
Grace / Ja`far al-Khalili
"Hello" / Mahmoud Taher Lashin
How I became a demon of the Jinn / Ibrahim `Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini
The
`Umda in the tavern / Muhammad al-Muwailihi
Um Ya`qub's chickens / Mikha'il Nu`aima
False teeth / Jamal Sleem Nuweihed
How misery was born / Fu'ad al-Shayib
The
elements of the ablution / Mahmoud Taymour
PT. 2. SHORT STORIES.
Fury / Amina `Abdallah
Who'll hang the bell? / Yahya Taher `Abdallah
The
tree and the birds / Ibrahim `Abd al-Majeed
The
illusion / Muhammad `Abd al-Malik
The
birthday party / `Abd al-llah `Abd al-Qadir
Al-Sayyid Majid / Muhammad `Abd al-Wali
The
Cloud ; Qais's road begins here / Jamal Abu Hamdan
People and love / Abu al-Ma`ati Abu al-Naja
The
alien farmer ; Temptation / `Abd al-Hameed Ahmad
The
next step / Daisy al-Amir
The
banquet / Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar
In search of an address / Ibrahim Aslan
The
trial / Sa`id `Aulaqi
The
widow / Tawfiq Yusuf `Awwad
The
locksmith / Shukry `Ayyad
Vengeance / Muhammad `Aziza
Tears for sale / Samira `Azzam
From mare to mouse / Layla Ba`albaki
Colors / Liana Badr
Tanyus on earth and Tanyus in heaven / Shawqi Baghdadi
Doves on the wing ; Little things do matter / Salwa Bakr
The
tale of the severed head / Muhammad barrada
A
game of pursuit / Muhammad al-Busati
A
woman / Zayd Mutee` Dammaj
The
windows / Zaki Darwish
The
death of the cane / Harib al-Dhahiri
Lighter than angels / Lutfiyya al-Dulaimi
Love me tonight / Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih
Who knows? Maybe
/ Mustafa al-Farisi
Shoulders / Ilyas Farkouh
Uncle, please help me get across / Gha'ib Tu`ma Farman
The
reward / Jamal Fayiz
The
gray-colored vehicle / Sulaiman Fayyad
The
autumn of life / Khalil al-Fuzayyi`
The
engagement present / Fat-hi Ghanim
The
man who say his own funeral / Nadia Ghazzi
An
enlightenment to the people of this world / Gamal al-Ghitani
Heart failure / Huzama Habayib
The
Mandelbaum gate / Emile Habiby
A
midnight visit / Ghalib Halasa
Cain suffocates the moon / `Abd al-`Al al-Hamamsi
That village on that morning / Akram Haniyyah
How my grandmother was murdered ; Morning in the city / Jameel Hatmal
The
dance of the savage prairies / Haydar Haydar
An
oil painting / Gamil `Atiyya Ibrahim
The
charm ; The woman's public bath / Ilfat Idilbi
Nadia's image / Suhail Idris
The
bet ; An Egyptian Mona Lisa ; A Very Egyptian story / Yusuf Idris
Madman ; The merry night of the dog / Walid Ikhlasi
The
strange world of a toy store / Isma`il Fahd Isma`il
Farewell: a crown of grass / Abdu Jubair
This hardship will pass / Nasir Jubran
The
beautician and the bride / Sa`id al-Kafrawi
If you'd been a horse / Ghassan Kanafani
The
tram of life / Fu'ad Kan`an
Layla / Wadad `Abd al-Latif al-Kawwari
The
takers / Bushra Khalfan
Summer / Shakir Khasbak
Autumn clouds / Burhan al-Khatib
Clocks like horses / Muhammad KHudayyir
The
pact / Ibrahim al-Koni
One summer / Musa Kraidi
Thirst / Hasan al-Lawzi
Rendezvous ; Under a starlit sky / Naguib Mahfouz
Blue fly ; The girls' ward / Muhammad Makhzanji
The
case / `Ali al-Makk
Crossing over / `Alya Mamdouh
The
billy goat and the menfolk / Samira al-Mana`
The
autumn of '81 / Hassouna Misbahi
Smiling as large as life ; Video / Muhammad al-Murr
Departure and return / Sabri Musa
The
dog ; Sent with the bearer / `Abd al-`Aziz al-Mushri
Matches to dry wood / Mai Muzaffar
The
miracle / Emily Nasrallah
The
wolf / `Abdallah al-Nasser
The
waitress, the newspaper boy, and the spring / `Abd al-Malik Nouri
News on the radio / Ghalia Qabbani
The
sound of footsteps / Muntasir al-Qaffash
Rabab gives up drawing / Yusuf al-Qa`id
A
winter night / `Abd al-Hakeem Qasim
Lord of my times ; You might get rich today / Fakhri Qa`war
Zinah / Mubarak Rabi`
Not only the hyena / Hani al-Rahib
The
final message / Hasan Rasheed
Abu Richard / Mu`nis al-Razzaz
The
child ; The dog ; God and the fish / Yasin Rifa`iyya
An
incident in the Ghobashi household / Alifa Rif`at
The
train / Mahmoud al-Rimawi
The
kingdom of bulls / `Abd al-Rahman Majid al-Rubai`i
The
fire within / `Abdallah Rukaibi
The
pit / Noura al-Sa`d
The
demise of His Excellency the Minister / Nawal al-Sa`dawi
She and I / Hadia Sa`id
The
barricade / Amin Salih
The
barrier / Salima Salih
The
Cypriot man / Tayyib Salih
Reactions / George Salim
The
meeting / Ibrahim Samu'il
Fresh blood / Mahdi `Issa Saqr
The
hymn / Salma Matar Sayf [Maryam Abu Shibab]
Ordeal by fire / Mahmoud Shaheen
The
women's swimming pool / Hanan al-Shaykh
The
interrogation / Muhammad al-Sharikh
Briefly / Yusuf Sharouni
Obsession / Sulaiman al-Shatti
The
evening walk / Muhammad `Ali Taha
The
engagement / Baha' Tahir
The
truth / Fu'ad al-Takarli
The
beards ; What took place in the city that was asleep ; Love ; Tigers on the tenth day / Zakaria Tamir
In search of a wilderness / Sahar Tawfiq
The
joker / Maguid Tobia
The
death of Muhammad Ben Ahmad Hinti / `Abd al-Salam al-`Ujaili
Going on a journey ; The damned insinuation / Layla al-`Uthman
The
secret / Faruq Wadi
The
martyrs are returning this week / Al-Taher Wattar
The
death of the good citizen / Muhammad al-Yahya'i (b. 1964)
The
turning point / Hussa Yusuf
Men and mules / Muhammad Zafzaf
The
narrow path / Latifa al-Zayyat
PT. 3. SELECTIONS FROM NOVELS.
Granada / Radwa Ashour
A
woman of five seasons / Layla al-Atrash
The
stars over Jericho / Liana Badr
The
crane / Halim Barakat
People of passion / Huda Barakat
The
people's bus / Najwa Barakat
Sages of darkness / Saleem Barakat
Game of forgetfulness / Muhammad Barrada
A
time for errors / Mohamed Choukri [Muhammad Shukri]
An
apartment called freedom / Ghazi A. Algosaibi
The
secret life of Sa`eed, the ill-fated pessoptimist / Emile Habiby
Power crazy / BenSalim Himmish
City of winds / Moussa Wuld Ibno
The
committee / Sun'allah Ibrahim
Search for Walid Mas`ud / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
All that's left to you / Ghassan Kanafani
Rama and the dragon / Edward al-Kharrat
City gates / Ilias Khouri
The
thief and the dogs / Naguib Mahfouz
Fragments of memory / Hanna Mina
Trees and the murder of Marzouq / `Abd al-Rahman Munif
Prairies of fever / Ibrahim Nasrallah
The
epidemic / Hani al-Rahib
Alive in the dead sea / Mu'nis al-Razzaz
The
hallway / Yasin Rifa`iyya
Nightmares of Beirut / Ghada Samman
Abu Musa's neighbors / Ahmad al-Tawfiqu
Al-Amin and Al-Ma'mun / Jurji Zaydan.
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