Under The Naked Sky - Short Stories From The Arab World
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Under The Naked Sky - Short Stories From The Arab World
| Author: | Robin Dunbar Chris Knight Camila Power |
| Category: | Short Stories [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر |
| ISBN: | 863563872 |
| Release Date: | 01 Sep 2001 |
| Pages: | 244 |
| Rank: | 543,133 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Drawing on a intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys johnson-Davies brings together in this collection a colorful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraq soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a cat at the height of an Iraq summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya. And a novel way of hunting duchs in the Nile Delta. the purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Gamal el-Ghitani, and Mohamed El-Bisatie from Egypt; Fuad al-Takarli, and Mohamed Khudayir from Iraq; Zakaria Tamer from Syria; Hanan al-shaykh from Lebanon; and Ibrahim al-koni from Libya.
on the other hand, its important Is Know that denys johnson-Davies is the pioneer translator of three volumes of prophetic Hadith. Recently has wrihen a number of childrens books adapted from traditional Arabic sources, and volum of his own short stories was published in 1999 under the tille fate of a prisoner. helives in cairo.
Drawing on a intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys johnson-Davies brings together in this collection a colorful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraq soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a cat at the height of an Iraq summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya. And a novel way of hunting duchs in the Nile Delta. the purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Gamal el-Ghitani, and Mohamed El-Bisatie from Egypt; Fuad al-Takarli, and Mohamed Khudayir from Iraq; Zakaria Tamer from Syria; Hanan al-shaykh from Lebanon; and Ibrahim al-koni from Libya.
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