John Haywood

Modern Arabic drama : an anthology

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction by M. M. Badawi The Balalin Company of Jerusalem Darkness OIsam Mahfuz The China Tree Mamduh OUdwan ThatOs Life OIzz al-Din al-Madani The Zanj Revolution OAbd al-OAziz al-SrayiiO The Bird Has Flown SaOdallah Wannus The King Is the King Walid Ikhlasi The Straight Path Yusuf al-OAni The Key Salah OAbd al-Sabur Night Traveler Alfred Farag OAli Janah al-Tabrizi and His Servant Quffa OAli Salem The Comedy of Oedipus: YouOve Killed the Beast Mahmud Diyab Strangers DonOt Drink Coffee Notes on Authors, Translators, and Editors Arabic Titles of Plays and AuthorsO Names Transliterated

Maze of Justice: Diary of a Country Prosecutor

An Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is in the form of a diary by a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness, red tape and incompetence of state officials.

Five Innovative Egyptian Short Stories / Khamsa Qiṣaṣ Miṣriyya

Cranston for providing so much information about the international development of Romanticism with such concision. True, the brevity of each chapter does not allow the author to expand on some of the sweeping statements he has made, and these are left open to debate. But of his succinctly expressed opinions, several are worth studying in greater detail. One is the obvious alliance between Romanticism and nationalism, which in several cases led to the foundation of new nations. Another is the relationship between literature and other arts, particularly music, which in several countries followed a parallel development. A third concerns the impact that both the sentimental and the historical novel had upon the literary renaissance that came to the Western world after the Napoleonic years. Cranstons book abounds with speculations on the origins of this literary school, with a clear focus on the rather heroic few who launched it in their respective countries.