Classic Short Fiction: Mahmoud al-Badawi’s ‘The Peddler’
Critic Sabry Hafez writes, in the Journal of Arabic Literature, that, “Amongst the men of letters of his generation, Mahmud Al-Badawi (b. 1911) stands as a lone and unique literary figure. He spent his literary life away from the limelight of public fame despite his substantial contribution to the development of Egyptian literature.”