From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Preface / Hanan al-Shaykh
Introduction / Abdo Wazen
Bedouins on the Edge / Abdelaziz Errachidi
Trip to the Slaughterhouse / Abdelkader Benali
Wounded Man / Abdellah Taia
Amazigh / Abderrahim Elkhassar
Skin of shadow / Abderrazak Boukebba
Twentieth terrorist / Abdullah Thabit
At the post office / Adania Shibli
Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmad Saadawi
Eight poems from The Utopia of Cemeteries / Ahmad Yamani
Three poems / Bassim al Ansar
Two stories / Dima Wannous
Three Stories / Hala Kawtharani
Secret pleasures / Hamdy el Gazzar
Last hanging poem / Hussein al Abri
Three poems / Hussein Jelaad
Layla's belly / Hyam Yared
Who are you carrying that rose for? / Islam Samhan
Geology of the I' in the book of J / Joumana Haddad
Threshold of ashes / Mansour El Souwaim
Path to madness / Mansoura Ez Eldin
Haneef from Glasgow / Mohammad Hassan Alwan
Boat that dislikes the riverbank / Mohammad Salah al Azab
Like the blade of a knife / Nagat Ali
Pools and the piano / Najwa Binshatwan
Six Poems / Najwan Darwish
Thirteen Poems / Nazem El Sayed
Story of my building / Randa Jarrar
Guardians of the air / Rosa Yassin Hassan
Scent of cinnamon / Samar Yezbek
Nine Poems / Samer Abou Hawwash
Crime in Mataeem Street / Wajdi al Ahdal
Raven's Leg / Yahya Amqassim
Two stories / Yassin Adnan
Suicide 20, or The Hakimi Maqama / Youssef Rakha
Nine poems / Zaki Baydoun
Notes on the translators.