This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine
outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from
Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to
Sudan in the south.
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said "the leading
Arabic-to-English translator of our time," this treasury of Arab
voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common
language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature,
from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the
nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz's
literary sons and daughters. Among the Egyptian writers who laid
the foundation for the Arabic literary renaissance are the great
Tawfik al-Hakim; the short story pioneer Mahmoud Teymour; and Yusuf
Idris, who embraced Egypt's vibrant spoken vernacular. An excerpt
from the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih's novel "Season of Migration
to the North, " one of the Arab world's finest, appears alongside
the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Koni's tales of the Tuaregs of North
Africa, the Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayir's masterly story "Clocks
Like Horses," and the work of such women writers as Lebanon's Hanan
al-Shaykh and Morocco's Leila Abouzeid.
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