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Mahfouz's Mīrāmār - First Chapter (2)

Thomas Thompson November 14, 2016
Tags Egypt, 1990s, Drawing, Novel

Mahfouz's Mīrāmār - First Chapter

Thomas Thompson November 11, 2016
Tags Egypt, Novel, 1990s, Drawing

Mahfouz's Miramar - ʿĀmir Wagdī

Thomas Thompson November 10, 2016

The first narrator in Mīrāmār.

Tags Novel, Egypt, 1990s, Drawing

Mahfouz's Miramar - Title Page

Thomas Thompson November 9, 2016

Title page from Maḥfūẓ's Mīrāmār

Tags Novel, 1990s, Egypt

Mahfouz's Mīrāmār - Arabic Edition

Thomas Thompson November 8, 2016

Today begins a series of images from the 1993 Arabic edition of Mīrāmār from Cairo's Maktabat Miṣr.

Tags Egypt, Novel, 1990s, Drawing

Mahfouz's Miramar: Three Continents Translation

Thomas Thompson November 7, 2016

Naguib Mahfouz's Miramar, Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud trans.,  postface by Trevor Le Gassick (Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, 1990)

Tags Egypt, Translation, Novel, 1990s

Mahfouz's Miramar - AUC Press Translation

Thomas Thompson November 4, 2016

Naguib Mahfouz's Miramar in English transation by Fatma Moussa Mahmoud, edited and revised by Maged el Kommos and John Rodenbeck, notes by Omar el Qudsy (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1978).

Tags Egypt, Novel, Translation, 1970s

Jabrā's "Sweat"

Thomas Thompson November 3, 2016

Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā's ʿAraq: wa-bidāyāt min ḥarf al-yāʾ (Bayrūt: Dār al-Ādāb, 1989).

Tags Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Novel, 1980s

Tammuz in the City

Thomas Thompson November 2, 2016

Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā's Tammūz fī al-madīnah (Bayrūt: al-Muʼassasah al-ʻArabīyyah li-l-Dirāsāt wa-l-Nashr, 1981).

Tags Lebanon, Iraq, Poetry

Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf's ʿĀlam bi-lā kharāʾiṭ (Bayrūt : al-Muʼassasah al-ʻArabiyyah li-l-Dirāsāt wa-l-Nashr, 1992).

A World Without Maps

Thomas Thompson November 1, 2016
Tags Lebanon, Iraq, Paint, 1990s, Novel

Cover of Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb's al-Nahr wa-l-mawt (Bayrūt: Dār al-Fārābī, 1998).

The River and Death

Thomas Thompson October 31, 2016
Tags Iraq, Lebanon, Poetry, Drawing, 1990s

Cover of The Complete Works, Muẓaffar al-Nawwāb (London: Dār al-Qanbar, 1996).

The poet's hand is on his temple in the portrait drawn inside the drop of ink.

Muẓaffar al-Nawwāb - The Complete Works

Thomas Thompson October 28, 2016
Tags Iraq, England, London, Poetry, 1990s

5th printing, from Dār al-Ādāb, Beirut (2007)

Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā's In Search of Walīd Masʿūd

Thomas Thompson October 27, 2016
Tags Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, 2000s, Novel

Suhayl al-Shamlī on Suhayl Idrīs

Thomas Thompson October 26, 2016

The cover of the first edition of Suhayl al-Shamlī's al-Baṭal fī thulāthiyyat Suhayl Idrīs (Bayrūt: Dār al-Ādāb, 1998).

Tags Lebanon, Criticism, Paint, Watercolor, 1990s

Ghassān Kanafānī's Palestinian Resistance Literature

Thomas Thompson October 25, 2016

The cover of the 3rd printing (1987) of al-Adab al-Filasṭīnī al-muqāwim taḥt al-iḥtilāl 1948-1967 (Nicosia, Cyprus: Muʾassasat al-Abḥāth al-ʿArabiyyah).

Tags Palestine, 1980s, Cyprus

The sixth printing of al-Khandaq al-Ghamīq (originally published in 1958), from Dār al-Ādāb in Beirut, 1993.

Suhayl Idrīs' The Deep Trench

Thomas Thompson October 24, 2016
Tags Lebanon, 1950s, 1990s, Novel, Watercolor

The Short Stories of Yūsuf Idrīs - Vol. II

Thomas Thompson October 21, 2016
Tags Egypt, Short Story, Paint

The Short Stories of Yūsuf Idrīs - Black and White

Thomas Thompson October 20, 2016
Tags Egypt, Short Story

The Short Stories of Yūsuf Idrīs

Thomas Thompson October 19, 2016

Cover of Yūsuf Idrīs' collected short stories, published by Dār al-Shurūq in 1991. Art by Ḥilmī al-Tūnī.

Tags Egypt, Short Story, Paint

War in the Land of Egypt - Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd

Thomas Thompson October 18, 2016

Cover of War in the Land of Egypt by Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd. A film based on the book was released in 1991.

Tags Egypt, Prose, Novel
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