Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology

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.