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The Essential Yusuf Idris

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162428
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Yusuf Idris written by Yūsuf Idrīs and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist struggle, and in writing--and his writing, whether in his regular newspaper columns or in his fiction, often reflected his political convictions. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature more than once, and when the prize went to Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, Idris felt that he had been passed over because of his outspoken views on Israel. In all, Yusuf Idris wrote some twelve collections of superbly crafted short stories, mainly about ordinary, poor people, many of which have been translated into English and are included, along with an extract from one of his novels, in this collection of the best of his work.

The Cheapest Nights

Author : Yusuf Idris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505768
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Cheapest Nights written by Yusuf Idris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "genius of the short story," a collection illuminating the lives of the Egyptian lower class by one of the most important and innovative voices of Egyptian literature A Penguin Classic One of Egypt's most acclaimed and well-known authors, Yusuf Idris is heralded as a "renovator and genius of the short story" whose signature stylistic device--the combination of literary and colloquial language à la Huckleberry Finn--transformed Arabic literature. The Cheapest Nights is a collection of some of his most important works, the title story of which follows a man who, unable to sleep, angrily meditates on the state of his life and the extreme poverty in which he finds himself. With compassion, astute observational skills, and biting humor, Idris explores the fraught lives of the Egyptian working class, all the while turning a critical eye on the power structures that oppress them. His collection of short stories, with a foreword by author Ezzedine C. Fishere, is a piercing exploration of power and religion, love and death.

The Sinners

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher : Three Continents
ISBN 13 : 9780894103940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Sinners written by Yūsuf Idrīs and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cheapest Nights, and Other Stories

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher : Three Continents
ISBN 13 : 9780894106668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Cheapest Nights, and Other Stories written by Yūsuf Idrīs and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Egypt's foremost writers, the acknowledged genius of the modern Arabic short story. Encompassing works from every stage of his career, this is the first collection of his stories to appear in English.

The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774163877
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Naguib Mahfouz written by Najīb Maḥfūẓ and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz "through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind." Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," and the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz into English, makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.

Yūsuf Idrīs

Author : Dalya Cohen-Mor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Yūsuf Idrīs written by Dalya Cohen-Mor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memories in Translation

Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774249389
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Memories in Translation written by Denys Johnson-Davies and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and works of Denys Johnson-Davies, who was described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic works to his name, and a career spanning some sixty years, he has brought the Arabic writing to an ever widening English readership.

The Sinners

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher : L. Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sinners written by Yūsuf Idrīs and published by L. Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sinners, a novel by the contemporary Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris, focuses on the discovery of a baby's corpse. An intense desire to bring the killer to justice arouses the local peasants, and gives them the excuse to pry into the lives of the entire community. The primary suspects are a group of indigent migrant workers, and the question of their guilt or innocence soon reveals other kinds of truths. The best-known novel of one of Egypt's leading writers, The Sinners is an evocative account of life in pre-revolutionary Egypt, taking a hard look at the social mores and taboos of peasant society.

The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774165926
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim written by Denys Johnson-Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the more than seventy plays he wrote, The Sultan's Dilemma, dealing with a historical subject in an appealingly light-hearted manner, is perhaps the best known; it appears in the extended edition of Norton's World Masterpieces and was broadcast on the old Home Service of the BBC. The other full-length play included here, The Tree Climber, is one that reveals al-Hakim's openness to outside influences in this case, the absurdist mode of writing. Of the two one-act plays in this collection, The Donkey Market shows his deftness at turning a traditional folk tale into a hilarious stage comedy. Tawfiq al-Hakim produced several of the earliest examples of the novel in Arabic; included in this volume is an extract from his best known work in that genre, the delightful Diary of a Country Prosecutor, in which he draws on his own experience as a public prosecutor in the Egyptian countryside. Three of the many short stories he published are also included, as well as an extract from The Prison of Life, an autobiography in which Tawfiq al-Hakim writes with commendable frankness about himself. Contents: Introduction by Denys Johnson-Davies, The Sultan's Dilemma (full-length play), The Tree Climber (full-length play), The Donkey Market (one-act play), The Song of Death (one-act play), Diary of a Country Prosecutor (extract from the novel), Miracles for Sale (short story), The Prison of Life (extract from the autobiography), Azrael the Barber (short story), Satan Triumphs (short story).

Modern Arabic Fiction

Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231132541
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Fiction written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian experience in modern times. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned scholar of Arabic literature, has included short stories and excerpts from novels from authors in every Arab country. Modern Arabic Fiction contains writings stretching from the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz and the stories of contemporary Arab writers. In addition to familiar names such as Mahfouz, the anthology presents excerpts from writers well known in the Arab world but just beginning to find an audience in the West, including early twentieth century Christian Lebanese writer Jurji Zaydan, whose historical epics were eye-openers for generations of Arab readers to the achievements of medieval Islamic civilization; Yusuf Idris's complex and brilliant portrait of Egypt's poor; 'Abd al-Rahman Muneef's searing exploration of the ecological and social impact of oil production; Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's sophisticated description of the dilemma's of modern Arab intellectuals; and Jamal al-Ghitani's impressive employment of mythical time and the continuity of the past in the present. Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial and illuminating introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists.

Rings of Burnished Brass

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rings of Burnished Brass written by Yūsuf Idrīs and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1984 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quarter

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 0863563856
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book The Quarter written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This collection by pre-eminent Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz was recently discovered among his old papers. Found with a slip of paper titled 'for publishing 1994', they are published here for the first time. Resplendent with Mahfouz's delicate and poignant observations of everyday happenings, these lively stories take the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo.

City of Love and Ashes

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book City of Love and Ashes written by Yūsuf Idrīs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history. Among the ashes of the city love may grow, but at a time of national struggle what place do personal feelings have beside the greater love for a shackled homeland? Yusuf Idris brings to life the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a national consciousness focused on liberation.

Homecoming

Author :
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972061
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Homecoming written by and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time,” arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time. He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt’s leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.

The Short Stories of Yūsuf Idrīs

Author : Kurpershoek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004663010
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Short Stories of Yūsuf Idrīs written by Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

Author : Omar Khalifah
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474410200
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary written by Omar Khalifah and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.

Heat, a History

Author : On Barak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520398696
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Heat, a History written by On Barak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an unrelenting barrage of record-breaking temperatures dominating the headlines, an enigma arises--despite the flames licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and mechanisms grant us the capacity to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Heat: A History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility all served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all these measures have ultimately fuelled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific abstractions and economic and cultural forces that have numbed our responses this book charts a way forward out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action"--