Classic Short Fiction: ‘The Crown of Disgrace’
“He did not say goodbye when he rose to leave.”
Amr El-Zawawy
Classic Short Fiction by Mohammed Hussein Heikal
In this classic short story, a woman tries to find a love of equals in early twentieth century Cairo.
Classic Short Fiction: Mohammed Hussein Heikal’s ‘The Second Family’
Short fiction by Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888 – 1956) about marriage and money in early twentieth century Egypt.
Classic Short Fiction: ‘On New Year’s Eve’
What happens on New Year’s Eve when a conservative (and naive) father comes to his son’s front door, in Cairo, and hears something he never expected? A holiday classic from Egyptian writer Ibrahim Abdelkader Al-Mazni (1889–1949).
Classic Short Fiction: al-Irani’s The Last Bullet
A classic short story by Palestinian writer Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani in which wealthy men in Amman tell a Palestinian waiter he should be happy.
Classic Short Fiction: Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani’s ‘My Secret Picture’
Palestinian short-story writer, publisher and translator Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani (1914-1974) writes about love, loyalty, and gender expectations in the early twentieth century.
Classic Short Fiction: ‘Deducted from Official Budgetary Sources’
A classic office farce from Al-Sahhar’s collection “Being a Civil Servant,” published in 1944.
Classic Short Fiction: Issa Ebeid’s ‘Lady Ihsan’
In this classic short fiction from 1920, Issa Ebeid depicts a twice-divorced Egyptian woman as she examines the reasons society has made a happy, loving marriage impossible.
Classic Short Fiction: Shehata Ebeid’s ‘Fidelity’
This short story is taken from Shehata Ebeid’s collection A Painful Lesson, published in 1922.
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