Ronak Husni & Daniel L. Newman MODERN ARABIC SHORT STORIES A Bilingual Reader SAQIISBN 13: 978-0-86356-436-9 Copyright © Ronak Husni & Daniel L. Newman, 2008 Alll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which itis published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A full crr record for this book is available from the British Library A fall c1P record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Printed and bound by CPI Mackays, Chatham, MES 8TD. SAQI 26 Westbourne Grove, London W2 5RH 825 Page Street, Suite 203, Berkeley, California 94710 Tabet Building, Mneimneh Street, Hamra, Beirut www. sagibooks. com Contents Introduction Note on Transliteration Abbreviations ‘Izz al-Din al-Madani The Tale of the Lamp Zakariyya Tamir A Lonely Woman Muhammad al-Zafzaf The Sacred Tree Ibrahim al-Faqih Excerpt from The Book of The Dead Najib Mahfuz Qismati and Nasibi Hanan al-Shaykh Yasmine’s Picture Muhammad Shukri The Night and the Sea Idwar al-Kharrat 1 12 3 1 4h 43 56 58 jo 72 104 107 144 147 162 164 178