Tablet & pen : : Literary Landscapes From the Modern Middle East : a Words Without Borders Anthology

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"A Words without Borders anthology."
Includes index.
Language of Invention: Renaissance of Arabic literature: 1910-1920 Future of the Arabic language / Khalil Gibran -- First lesson / Yahya Haqqi -- Diary of a country prosecutor / Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Are you intoxicated? / 'Arrar -- Sheikh says... / 'Arrar -- My kinsmen say "leave her!" / 'Arrar -- Aqsa Mosque / 'Abd Al-Rahim Mahmud.
My Country: The nationalization of Turkish literature: 1920-1930 Istanbul boy / Aziz Nesin -- I love my country / Nazim Hikmet -- Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin / Nazim Hikmet -- Since I was thrown inside / Nazim Hikmet -- Gray donkey / Rafik Halit Karay.
Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Azra Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abu Salma, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Asbar), Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Pegah Ahmadi, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nazik al-Malāʼikah, Mozaffar al-Nawwab, Melih Cevdet Anday, ʻArrār (Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal), Manouchehr Atashi, Reza Baraheni, Faraj Bayraqdar, Simin Behbahani, Alireza Behnam, Sadeq Chubak, Ismat Chughtai, Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, Simin Daneshvar, Mahmoud Darwish, Parvin E'tesami, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Forugh Farrokhzad, Altaf Fatima, Khalil Gibran, Hoiushang Golshiri, Melisa Gürpinar, Yahya Haqqi, Haydar Haydar, Sadegh Hedayat, Nâzim Hikmet, Abdullah Hussein, Intizaar Hussein, Yusif Idris, Muhammad Iqbal, Ali Sardar Jafri, Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, Ghassan Kanafani, Orhan Veli Kanik, Refik Halit Karay, Cemil Kavukçu, Yaşar Kemal, Naguib Mahfouz, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Mahmud, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manto, Miraji (Muḥammad S̲ānāʼullāh Dār), Zakaria Mohammad, Nader Naderpour, Kishwar Naheed, Aziz Nesin, Orhan Pamuk, Zoya Pirzad, Hamid Reza Rahimi, N.M. Rashed, Fahmida Riaz, Oktay Rifat, Zeeshan Sahil, Ahmad Shamloo, Cemal Süreya, Zakariyya Tami, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Goli Taraghi, Akhtar ul-Iman, Saadi Youssef, Can Yücel, Nima Yushij, and Haifa Zangana.

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