An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present

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This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political ...

In a world where the dead routinely return to life, the most shocking mystery is when someone doesn’t.