Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology

THE PIONEERS. The highway robber / Marun ʻAbboud --

The little gods / Dhannoun Ayyoub --

The snake / Mahmoud Badawi --

My sleepless nights / ʻAli al-Duʻaji --

The mailman / Tawfiq al-Hakim --

The divining stones / Yahya Haqqi --

Grace / Jaʻfar al-Khalili --

"Hello" / Mahmoud Taher Lashin --

How I became a demon of the Jinn / Ibrahim ʻAbd al-Qadir al-Mazini --

The ʻUmda in the tavern / Muhammad al-Muwailihi --

Um Yaʻqub's chickens / Mikhaʼil Nuʻaima --

False teeth / Jamal Sleem Nuweihed --

How misery was born / Fuʼad al-Shayib --

The elements of the ablution / Mahmoud Taymour.

SHORT STORIES. Fury / Amina ʻAbdallah --

Who'll hang the bell? / Yahya Taher ʻAbdallah --

The tree and the birds / Ibrahim ʻAbd al-Majeed --

The illusion / Muhammad ʻAbd al-Malik --

The birthday party / ʻAbd al-llah ʻAbd al-Qadir --

Al-Sayyid Majid / Muhammad ʻAbd al-Wali --

The Cloud ; Qais's road begins here / Jamal Abu Hamdan --

People and love / Abu al-Maʻati Abu al-Naja --

The alien farmer ; Temptation / ʻAbd al-Hameed Ahmad --

The next step / Daisy al-Amir --

The banquet / Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar --

In search of an address / Ibrahim Aslan --

The trial / Saʻid ʻAulaqi --

The widow / Tawfiq Yusuf ʻAwwad --

The locksmith / Shukry ʻAyyad --

Vengeance / Muhammad ʻAziza --

Tears for sale / Samira ʻAzzam --

From mare to mouse / Layla Baʻalbaki --

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 Muteeʻ 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

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Mustafa al-Farisi --

Shoulders / Ilyas Farkouh --

Uncle, please help me get across / Ghaʼib Tuʻma Farman --

The reward / Jamal Fayiz --

The gray-colored vehicle / Sulaiman Fayyad --

The autumn of life / Khalil al-Fuzayyiʻ --

The engagement present / Fat-hi Ghanim --

The man who saw 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 / ʻAbd al-ʻAl 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 ʻAtiyya Ibrahim --

The charm ; The women'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 / Ismaʻil Fahd Ismaʻil.

Farewell: a crown of grass / Abdu Jubair --

This hardship will pass / Nasir Jubran --

The beautician and the bride / Saʻid al-Kafrawi --

If you'd been a horse / Ghassan Kanafani --

The tram of life / Fuʼad Kanʻan --

Layla / Wadad ʻAbd 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 / ʻAli al-Makk --

Crossing over / ʻAlya Mamdouh --

The billy goat and the menfolk / Samira al-Manaʻ --

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 / ʻAbd al-ʻAziz al-Mushri --

Matches to dry wood / Mai Muzaffar --

The miracle / Emily Nasrallah --

The wolf / ʻAbdallah al-Nasser --

The waitress, the newspaper boy, and the spring / ʻAbd al-Malik Nouri --

News on the radio / Ghalia Qabbani --

The sound of footsteps / Muntasir al-Qaffash --

Rabab gives up drawing / Yusuf al-Qaʻid --

A winter night / ʻAbd al-Hakeem Qasim --

Lord of my times ; You might get rich today / Fakhri Qaʻwar --

Zinah / Mubarak Rabiʻ --

Not only the hyena / Hani al-Rahib --

The final message / Hasan Rasheed --

Abu Richard / Muʻnis al-Razzaz --

The child ; The dog ; God and the fish / Yasin Rifaʻiyya --

An incident in the Ghobashi household / Alifa Rifʻat --

The train / Mahmoud al-Rimawi --

The kingdom of bulls / ʻAbd al-Rahman Majid al-Rubaiʻi --

The fire within / ʻAbdallah Rukaibi --

The pit / Noura al-Saʻd --

The demise of His Excellency the Minister / Nawal al-Saʻdawi --

She and I / Hadia Saʻid --

The barricade / Amin Salih --

The barrier / Salima Salih --

The Cypriot man / Tayyib Salih --

Reactions / George Salim --

The meeting / Ibrahim Samuʼil --

Fresh blood / Mahdi ʻIssa 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 ʻAli Taha --

The engagement / Bahaʼ Tahir --

The truth / Fuʼad 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 / ʻAbd al-Salam al-ʻUjaili --

Going on a journey ; The damned insinuation / Layla al-ʻUthman --

The secret / Faruq Wadi --

The martyrs are returning this week / Al-Taher Wattar --

The death of the good citizen / Muhammad al-Yahyaʼi (b. 1964) --

The turning point / Hussa Yusuf --

Men and mules / Muhammad Zafzaf --

The narrow path / Latifa al-Zayyat.

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 Saʻeed, the ill-fated pessoptimist / Emile Habiby --

Power crazy / BenSalim Himmish --

City of winds / Moussa Wuld Ibno --

The committee / Sunʼallah Ibrahim --

Search for Walid Masʻud / 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 / ʻAbd al-Rahman Munif --

Prairies of fever / Ibrahim Nasrallah --

The epidemic / Hani al-Rahib --

Alive in the dead sea / Muʼnis al-Razzaz --

The hallway / Yasin Rifaʻiyya --

Nightmares of Beirut / Ghada Samman --

Abu Musa's neighbors / Ahmad al-Tawfiqu --

Al-Amin and Al-Maʼmun / Jurji Zaydan.