Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edw...

A personal account from the worlds foremost translator of modern Arabic fiction

This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the A...

A new collection of short fiction from the Arabian Gulf

“The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih...

A new paperback edition of this collection of powerful short stories by an Iraqi writer

The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to...

The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature i...

A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. Naguib Mahfouz, the...

The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature i...

A selection of the most important works of Egypts leading short story writer