Modern Arabic Short Stories: An Arabic-English Reader features a number of short stories
written by prominent writers from various countries. Zakariyya Tamir (Syria) Ibrahim Darghuthy
(Tunisia) Yousef Idrees (Egypt) Ahmed Al-Faqih (Libya) Ghasan Kanafani (Palestine) Zaid M.
Damaj (Yemen) Layla Al-Uthman (Kuwait) Abdulhamid Al-Gharbawi (Morocco) Hasan Dabal (Saudi
Arabia) and Jamal Al-Khayyat (Bahrain) are well-known in the Arab World as well as in the
West. Some of their works have been translated into many languages. The potential readership
for this bilingual volume is varied. However the primary target readers are students of
Arabic-English translation. The accompanying English translation of the stories makes the
volume accessible to all those interested in contemporary Arabic literature but who are not
able to read the stories in the original. For each story there is an accompanying exercise
