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.
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Classic Short Fiction: Shehata Ebeid’s ‘Fidelity’
This short story is taken from Shehata Ebeid’s collection A Painful Lesson, published in 1922.
Summer Short Fiction: Ibrahim Abdelkader Al-Mazni’s ‘Mimi’
This short story is taken from Ibrahim Al-Mazni’s short-story collection Fi Al-Tareeq (On the Road), published in 1937. Most of the 20-odd stories in the collection are humorous or satirical.
Short Summer Fiction: Ibrahim Al-Mazni’s ‘Eve and the Viper’
This short story is taken from Ibrahim Al-Mazni’s short-story collection Fi Al-Tareeq (On the Road), published in 1937. Most of the 20-odd stories in the collection are humorous or satirical.
Classic Short Fiction: Mahmud Taymour’s ‘The Grand Funeral’
“Bashir Agha walked the doctor through the winding corridors, guiding him to Mustafa Hassan’s sickbed. The doctor followed, stepping cautiously until they arrived at a dim, dust-coated chamber littered with refuse.”
Classic Short Fiction: Muhammed Taymour’s ‘The Eid Whistle’
This classic short fiction was composed in August 1917 by Muhammed Taymour, a pioneer of modern fiction and theatrical literature in Egypt.
Classic Short Fiction: ‘Among the Problems of the Village’
This story originally appeared in Maroun Abboud’s أقزام جبابرة. Abboud (1886-1962) was a Lebanese poet and writer who lived and worked among the Druze and wrote about village life in Mount Lebanon. Abboud studied various languages, initially pursued priesthood, and later worked as a newspaper editor while writing poetry.
Early 20th Century Short Fiction in Translation: Muhammad Taymour’s ‘A Boy Who Became a Man’
This short story originally appeared in Muhammad Taymour’s collection What the Eyes Can See (1922), and this story was written in 1917. It recounts events in the life a fictional […]
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