Key selections of Egyptian authors by the world renowned, award-winning translator of Arabic fiction. Ideal introduction to the Arabic short story for anyone studying Arabic.
Denys Johnson-Davies has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.
"Johnson-Davies, a distinguished translator from Arabic, has
produced a collection of nearly 60 Egyptian short stories that
usefully adds to the growing corpus of Arab literature available in
English."--Choice
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