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A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate

Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, the author brings together a mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. These thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes, an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war, and more.

A selection of the most important works of Egypt's leading short story writer

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An exciting and informative overview of the early years of Islam.

An exciting and informative overview of the early years of Islam.

Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the ...

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Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time, " arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local Engli...

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A personal account from the world's foremost translator of modern Arabic fiction

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The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the more than s...

A new collection of short fiction from the Arabian Gulf