Ranging from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, a treasury of modern Arab literary works features the contributions of eighty outstanding writers from all over the Arab world, including Naguib Mahfouz, Tewfik al-Hakim, Mahmoud Teymour, Yusuf Idris, Tayeb Salih, Ibrahim al-Koni, Mohamed Khudayir, Leila Abouzeid, and Hanan al-Shaykh. Original. 15,000 first printing.