A Drawing from al-Jabal
The Mountain
Fatḥī Ghānim (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Hilāl, 1965)
Image from Yasin and Bahiyyah
Yasin and Bahiyyah, by Naguib Surur
I Stared at the Night of the City
Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman (Reading: Periscope, an imprint of Garnet Publishing Limited, 2016)
My Uncle Napoleon
Iraj Pezeshkzad, translated from the Persian by Dick Davis (Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1996)
Three Drops of Blood
Ṣādiq Hidāyat, Sih qaṭrih-yi khūn (Tihrān: Jāvīdān, 2536 [1977])
The Little Black Fish
A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (4)
A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (3)
A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (2)
A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair
The paintings in this book are by Paul Guiragossian, an Armenian forced out of Palestine--where he was born--in 1947. He became an important figure in the Beirut art scene. For more information, see here.
The Messenger with Her Long Hair Until the Springs
Unsī al-Ḥājj (Bayrūt: Dār al-Nahār li-l-Nashr, 1975)
Generation, Class, and Vision
Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm: al-jīl wa-l-ṭabaqah wa-l-ruʼyā
by Ghālī Shukrī (Bayrūt : Dār al-Fārābī, 1993)
In the Tavern of Life
Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by William Maynard Hutchins (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998)