The Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction

from No one sleeps in Alexandria / Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Ya Khabiir / Mohammad Abdul-Wali

Rhythms in slow time / Yahya Taher Abdullah

Discontended / Leila Abouzeid

Dreams seen by a blind boy / Yusuf Abu Rayya

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Dongola / Idris Ali

Doctor's prescription / Daisy Al-Amir

I saw the date-palms / Radwa Ashour

Little girl in green / Ibrahim Aslan

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Nile sparrows / Ibrahim Aslan

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Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany

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Land of stone and thyme / Liana Badr

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A certain woman / Hala El Badry

Dotty Noona / Salwa Bakr

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Golden chariot / Salwa Bakr

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Tiller of waters / Hoda Barakat

Lie by installments / Mohammed Barrada

Drought / Mohamed El-Bisatie

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Clamor of the lake / Mohamed El-Bisatie

Flower crazy / Mohamed Choukri

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Dear Mr. Kawabata / Rashid al-Daif

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Hostage / Zayd Mutee' Dammaj

Apples of paradise / Brahim Dargouthi

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Gardens of the night / Ahmad Faqih

Sunset / Fathy Ghanem

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Zayni Barakat / Gamal al-Ghitani

Cairo is a small city / Nabil Gorgy

Have you seen Alexandria Station? / Abdou Gubeir

At last the almond blossomed / Emile Habiby

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Diary of a country prosecutor / Tawfik al-Hakim

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Lamp of Umm Hashim / Yahya Hakki

Story from prison / Yahya Hakki

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Net / Sherif Hetata

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Polymath / Bensalem Himmich

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Man of letters / Taha Hussein

Old man / Gamil Atia Ibrahim

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Zaat / Sonallah Ibrahim

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Committee / Sonallah Ibrahim

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Sabriya: Damascus bitter sweet / Ulfat Idilbi

House of flesh / Yusuf Idris

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City of love and ashes / Yusuf Idris

Dead afternoon / Walid Ikhlassi

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In search of Walid Masoud / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Hill of gypsies / Said al-Kafrawi

Slave fort / Ghassan Kanafani

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Men in the sun / Ghassan Kanafani

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Wild thorns / Sahar Khalifeh

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Rama and the dragon / Edwar al-Kharrat

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Sky so close / Betool Khedairi

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Journey of Little Gandhi / Elias Khoury

Clocks like horses / Mohamed Khudayir

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Bleeding of the stone / Ibrahim al-Koni

Ill-omened golden bird / Ibrahim al-Koni

Conjurer made off with the dish / Naguib Mahfouz

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Arabian nights and days / Naguib Mahfouz

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Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz

Pilot / Mohamed Makhzangi

Presence of the absent man / Alia Mamdouh

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Fragments of memory / Hanna Mina

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Memory in the flesh / Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Benevolence / Sabri Moussa

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Endings / Abd al-Rahman Munif

Your uncle was a poet / Muhammad al Murr

I've been here before / Buthaina Al Nasiri

House not her own / Emily Nasrallah

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Prairies of fever / Ibrahim Nasrallah

Nights of musk / Haggag Hassan Oddoul

Three meaningless tales / Yusuf al-Qa'id

Whistle / Abd al- Alifa Rifaat

She has no place in paradise / Nawal El Saadawi

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Woman at point zero / Nawal El Saadawi

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Season of migration to the north / Tayeb Salih

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Bandarshah / Tayeb Salih

Cypriot man / Tayeb Salih

Gypsy without a haven / Ghada Samman

My fellow passenger / Ibrahim Samouiel

Distant seas / Habib Selmi

Clock / Khairy Shalaby

Persian carpet / Hanan al-Shaykh

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Beirut blues / Hanan al-Shaykh

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Tent / Miral al-Tahawy

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Love in exile / Bahaa Taher

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Long way back / Fuad al-Takarli

Summary of what happened to Mohammed al-Mahmoudi / Zakaria Tamer

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Dunyazad / May Telmissany

Comedy of death / Mahmoud Teymour

Dream / Abdel Salam al-Ujaili

Day grandpa came / Mahmoud Al-Wardani

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Earthquake / Tahir Wattar

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Open door / Latifa al-Zayyat

Snake hunting / Mohamed Zefzaf.