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Beirut 39 : : new Writing From the Arab World

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Collection of new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine.
From the novel Bedouins on the edge / Abdelaziz Errachidi -- From the novel The trip to the slaughterhouse / Abdelkader Benali -- Wounded man / Abdellah Taia -- Amazigh / Abderrahim Elkhassar -- From the novel Skin of shadow / Abderrazak Boukebba -- From the novel The Twentienth terrorist / Abdullah Thabit -- At the post office / Adania Shibli -- From the novel Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmad Saadawi -- Eight poems from The Utopia of Cemeteries / Ahmad Yamani -- Coexistence / Ala Hlehel -- Three poems / Bassim al Ansar -- Two stories / Dima Wannous -- Mimouna / Faiza Guene -- Three stories / Hala Kawtharani -- From the novel Secret Pleasures / Hamdy el Gazzar -- From the novel The Last hanging Poem / Hussein al Abri -- Three poems / Hussein Jelaad -- Layla's belly / Hyam Yared -- Who are you carrying that rose for? / Islam Samhan -- From the poem "The geology of the I' in the Book of J" / Joumana Haddad -- From the novel The Scalpel / Kamel Riahi -- From the novel The Threshold of ashes / Mansour El Souwaim -- Path to madness / Mansoura Ez Eldin -- Haneef from Glasgow / Mohammad Hassan Alwan -- A boat that dislikes the riverbank / Mohammad Salah al Azab -- Four poems from Like the blade of a knife / Nagat Ali -- Pools and the piano / Najwa Binshatwan -- Six poems / Najwan Darwish -- Thirteen poems / Nazem El Sayed -- From the novel America / Rabee Jaber -- Story of my building / Randa Jarrar -- Guardians of the air / Rosa Yassin Hassan -- From the novel The Scent of cinnamon / Samar Yezbek -- Nine poems / Samer Abou Hawwash -- A crime in Mataeem Street / Wajdi al Ahdal -- From the novel Raven's Leg / Yahya Amqassim -- Two stories / Yassin Adnan -- Suicide 20, or the Hakimi Maqama / Youssef Rakha -- Nine poems / Zaki Baydoun.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 304 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781608192021 (alk. paper)
1608192024 (alk. paper)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Shimon, Samuel, 1956-

SUBJECTS
Arabic literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
Arabic literature -- 21st century -- Translations into English.