A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (24 page)

Children of the Alley
, Naguib Mahfouz
70

Choukri, Mohamed,
For Bread Alone
37

Cities of Salt
, Abdelrahman Munif
81
,
83–4

City of Saffron
, Edwar al-Kharrat
121
,
123
,
124

Committee, The
, Sonallah Ibrahim
114–15

Darwish, Mahmoud
86
,
90
,
108–10

Davies, Humphrey
135
,
160

Days of Dust
, Halim Barakat
100–1

Days with Him
, Colette Khouri
142

Days, The
, Taha Hussein
26
,
52

Diary of a Country Prosecutor
, Tawfiq al-Hakim
26
,
57–8

Dib, Mohamed
36

Diwan School poets
62
,
85

Djebar, Assia
36

Dongola
, Idris Alis
153

drama
56–7
,
62–3
,
128–31

Dughri Family, The
(play), Nu’man Ashur
129

Dunqul, Amal
91
,
126

Dunyazad
, May Telmissany
145–6

Earthquake, The
, Tahir Wattar
37

East of the Mediterranean
, Abdelrahman Munif
82

Egyptian Earth
, Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi
79

Enani, Mohamed
128

Endings
, Abdelrahman Munif
83

al-Fajr
(house journal)
53

Fanon, Frantz
41

al-Farafir
(small fry) (play), Yusuf Idris
129–30

Farag, Alfred
129
,
130

Farouk I, King of Egypt
124

Fate of a Cockroach
(play), Tawfiq al-Hakim
129

Fawzia, Princess
124

Fewer Roses
, Mahmoud Darwish
109

First Well, The
, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
102
,
103–4

Fitzgerald, Edward,
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
29

For Bread Alone
, Mohamed Choukri
37

Fu’ad I, King of Egypt
61

Gallery
68
(literary review)
119–20

al-Garad
(locusts)(magazine)
128

al-Garida
(magazine)
52

Gate of the Sun
, Elias Khoury
160–1
,
162

Ghali, Waguih,
Beer in the Snooker Club
12

Ghanem, Fathy,
The Man Who Lost His
Shadow
73

al-Ghitany, Gamal
33
,
112
,
119–21
,
123
130
,
133
,
158

Gibran, Gibran Khalil
26
,
28
,
60

Girls of Alexandria
, Edwar al-Kharrat
121
,
124–5

al-Gumhuriyya
(newspaper)
77

Habiby, Emile
97–9
,
108
,
110

Haddad, Fu’ad
91
,
126–7

Hafez, Sabry
82
,
84

al-Hakim, Tawfiq
14
,
15
,
26
,
35
,
56–60
,
56
,
62–3
,
80
,
128–9
,
130
,
157

Hakki, Yahya
78
,
80
,
53–6
,
157

Hamama, Faten
75
,
76

Harafish, The
, Naguib Mahfouz
74

Hegazi, Ahmad Abd al-Mu’ti
91
,
126

Hidden Face of Eve, The
, Nawal al-Saadawi
143

homosexuality
146
,
149–52

Hussein, Taha
14
,
15
,
26
,
27
,
48–52
,
49
,
51
,–2,
128
,
157
,
159

I am Free
, Ihsan Abdel-Quddus
142

I Live
, Leila Baalbaki
142

I Saw Ramallah
, Mourid Barghouti
105
,
106–7
,
108

Ibn Khaldoun
51

Ibrahim, Gamal Attia
133

Ibrahim, Hafez
14
,
60–2

Ibrahim, Sonallah
112–19
,
123
,
130
,
133
,
158

Ibsen, Henrik
63

Idris, Yusuf
36
,
74–8
,
122
,
129–30

Introduction to Arab Poetics
, Adonis
87

Iraq
84–5

Israel, state of
93
,
94
,
101
,
102
,
106

Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
101
,
102–5

Jacquemond, Richard
26
,
27

Jahine, Salah
91
,
126–7

Jerash Festival, Jordan
131

Johnson-Davies, Denys
23
,
31

Journey of Ibn Fattouma, The
, Naguib Mahfouz
74

Kanafani, Ghassan
94–7

al-Karmel
(literary review)
109

Karnak Café
, Naguib Mahfouz
73

Khadra, Yasmina
14

Khalifeh, Sahar,
Wild Thorns
105–6

al-Kharrat, Edwar
119
,
121–5
,
133
,
158

Khedive Abbas Hilmi Pasha
61

al-Khitab al-Hamishy
(marginal discourse)(magazine)
128

Khouri, Colette,
Days with Him
142

Khoury, Elias,
Gate of the Sun
160–1
,
162

King is the King, The
(play), Saadallah Wannous
131

Kitab al-tajalliyat
, Gamal al-Ghitany
33

al-Kitaba al-Ukhra
(alternative writing) (magazine)
128

el-Koloub, Out
27

al-Koni, Ibrahim
36
,
136
,
154–5

Kulthoum, Asmahan
15

Kulthoum, Umm
15

Lamp of ‘Umm Hashim, The
, Yahya Hakki
54–6
,
78
,
80

Land of Darkness
, Abdelrahman Munif
85

Laredj, Waciny
37

Lebanon civil war
147–9
,
148
,
161

Liberation of Women, The
, Qassem Amin
139–40

Loti, Pierre
141

Love is Forbidden
(Egyptian film)
15

Lutfi el-Sayyid, Ahmed
15

Lutfi el-Sayyid, Manfalouti
15

Maeterlinck, Count Maurice
63

Maghreb
12
,
36

magical realism
24–5
,
158

Mahfouz, Naguib
9
,
14
,
15–16
,
25
,
27–8
,
32
,
35
,
38–9
,
66–74
,
66–8
,
70–4
,
130
,
149
,
150
,
152
,
158
,
159

Mahmoud al-Aqqad, Abbas
62

al-Makhzangi, Mohamed
133

al-Mala’ika, Nazik
86
,
87
,
125

Mallowan, Max
104

Man Who Lost His Shadow, The
, Fathy Ghanem
73

Mashraq
12
,
36

Matar, Hisham
12

Matar, Muhammad Afifi
126
,
127

al-Mazini, Ibrahim Abdel-Qader
62

Memoirs from the Women’s Prison
, Nawal al-Saadawi
144–5

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
, Nawal al-Saadawi
144

Memory for Forgetfulness
, Mahmoud Darwish
109

Men in the Sun
, Ghassan Kanafani
95–6

Midaq Alley
, Naguib Mahfouz
66
,
141–2
,
149

Miramar
, Naguib Mahfouz
70
,
72–3

Mirrors
, Naguib Mahfouz
73–4

Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt
, M M Badawi
129

Mohamed’Ali
47

Mountainous Journey, A
, Fadwa Tuqan
101

Muhammad ibn Iyas
120

Munif, Abdelrahman
4
,
79
.
81–5

nahda
(Arab renaissance)
35
,
48
,
59
,
80
,
85
,
139
,
140
,
159

Naksah
(the setback)
111
,
112

Nasser, Gamal Abdel
58
,
121
,
125
,
126
,
137

Nasser regime
73
,
75
,
111
,
113
,
127

al-Nawwab, Muzaffar
127

New Woman, The
, Qassem Amin
139

Nights of Musk
, Haggag Hassan Oddoul
153–4

Nigm, Ahmad Fu’ad
91
,
126
,
127

Notes on History and Resistance
, Abdelrahman Munif
85

Oddoul, Haggag Hassan
36
,
153–4

Only in London
, Hanan al-Shaykh
147

Open Door, The
, Latifa al-Zayyat
142

Orientalism
, Edward Said
21–2
,
41

Pahlavi, Prince Muhammad Reza
124

Palace of Desire
, Naguib Mahfouz
66

Palace Walk
, Naguib Mahfouz
29–30

Palestinian literature
15
,
94–110

Papers of a Young Man Who Lived One Thousand Years Ago
, Gamal al-Ghitany
120

Passage to France, A
, Taha Hussein
51

Passion and Vengeance
(Egyptian film)
15

People of the Cave
(play), Tawfiq al-Hakim
128

People Downstairs, The
(play), Nu’man Ashur
129

poetry
60–2
,
85–91
,
102
,
107–10
,
125–8

postmodernist styles
136–8
,
158

Princesses’ Street
, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
104

Prison of Life, The
, Tawfiq al-Hakim
56–7
,
62–3

Qabbani, Nizar
86
,
90

al-Qasim, Samih, ‘Travel Tickets’
110

Qur’an
32
,
49

Rama and the Dragon
, Edwar al-Kharrat, Edwar
121
,
122

République mondiale des lettres, La
, Pascale Casanova
42–3

Return of the Spirit
, Tawfiq al-Hakim
58–60
,
62
,
80

Rifaat, Alifa
27
,
146

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin
124

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
, Edward Fitzgerald
29

Ruba’iyyat
(Quatrains), Salah Jahine
127

Sa’ad, Ali Ahmad
see
Adonis

al-Saadawi, Nawal
27
,
143–5
,
143
,
146
,
159

El Sadat, Esmat
118

Sa’eed, Mustafa
31–2
,
80
,
81

Sagan, Françoise,
Bonjour Tristesse
142

Said, Edward
21–2
,
29
,
41
,
121

Salih, Tayeb
31–2
,
36
,
79–81
,
123
,
158

Samman, Ghada,
Beirut Nightmare
147–9

Sayeda Zeinab, Mosque of
54
,
59

al-Sayyab, Badr Shakir
86
,
87
,
88–9
,
125

Search for Walid Masoud, The
, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
102–3

Season of Migration to the North
, Tayeb Salih
31–2
,
79–80
,
81

Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
, Emile Habiby
97–9
,
108

al-Shabbi, Abu al-Qasim
62

Sharaawi, Huda
139
,
140–1

Sharaf
, Sonallah Ibrahim
119

Shari’a
139

al-Sharqawi, Abdel Rahman,
Egyptian Earth
79
,
122

Shawqi, Ahmed
60–1

al-Shaykh, Hanan
134
,
147
,
149
,
150

Ship, The
, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
102

Shi’r
(poetry review)
86

Sin, The
(1965 film)
75
,
76

Six Days
, Halim Barakat
99–100

Smell of It, The
, Sonallah Ibrahim
112–13
,
119

as-Soubai, Youcef
14

Soueif, Ahdaf
12

Stone of Laughter, The
, Hoda Barakat
152

Story of Zahra, The
, Hanan al-Shaykh
147