Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology

Pt 1: 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. Pt 2: 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

/ 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 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 / 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 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 / 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. 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 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.