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In a fertile desert : modern writing from the United Arab Emirates /
Here, for the first time, is a volume of short stories from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant center of the Arab world. Life before oil in this region was harsh, and many of the stories in this collection-by both men and women from all corners of the country-tell of those times and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A decision / Ebtisam al-Mualla
- A different species / Lamees Faris al-Marzuqi
- A slap in the face / Abdul Hamid Ahmed
- Abu Abboud / Ali Abdul Aziz al-Sharhan
- Birds of a feather / Jumaa al-Fairuz
- Death / Omniyat Salem
- Enemies in a single house / Maryam Jumaa Faraj
- Fear without walls / 'A'ishaa al-Za'aby
- Fishhooks / Nasser Jubran
- Grief of the night bird / Ibrahim Mubarak
- The old woman / Maryam Al Saedi
- Ripe dates and date palms / Hareb al-Dhaheri
- The little tree / Nasser Al-Dhaheri
- The Peddler / Muhsin Soleiman
- The sound of singing / Salma Matar Seif
- Threads of delusion / Sheikha al-Nakhi
- Too late / Saleh Karama
- Two neighbors / Muhammad al-Murr
- Zaain and Fatima / Mohamed al-Mazrouei
- The story of Ibrahim / Roda al-Baluchi.