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Beirut 39 : new writing from the Arab world / edited by Samuel Shimon ; with a preface by Hanan al-Shaykh.

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Bloomsbury, c2010.

9781608192021 (trade pbk)

Alternate title:

Beirut thirty-nine

New writing from the Arab world

xiv, 304 p. ; 21 cm.

Collection of new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under forty.

"A Hay Festival project"--Cover.

Chiefly translated from Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Hanan al-Shaykh -- Judges' announcement -- Introduction / Abdo Wazen -- Editor's note -- Bedouins on the edge / Abdelaziz Errachidi -- Trip to the slaughterhouse / Abdelkader Benali -- Wounded man / Abdellah Taia -- Amazigh / Abderrahim Elkhassar -- Skin of shadow / Abderrazak Boukebba -- Twentieth terrorist / Abdullah Thabit -- At the post office / Adania Shibli -- Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmad Saadawi -- Eight poems from The Utopia of Cemeteries / Ahmad Yamani -- Coexistence / Ala Hlehel -- Three poems / Bassim al Ansar -- Two stories / Dima Wannous -- Mimouna / Faiza Guene -- Three stories / Hala Kawtharani -- Secret pleasures / Hamdy el Gazzar -- Last hanging poem / Hussein al Abri -- Three poems / Hussein Jelaad -- Layla's belly / Hyam Yared -- Who are you carrying that rose for? / Islam Samhan -- Geology of the I' in the book of J / Joumana Haddad -- Scalpel / Kamel Riahi -- Threshold of ashes / Mansour El Souwaim -- Path to madness / Mansoura Ez Eldin -- Haneef from Glasgow / Mohammad Hassan Alwan -- Boat that dislikes the riverbank / Mohammad Salah al Azab -- Like the blade of a knife / Nagat Ali -- Pools and the piano / Najwa Binshatwan -- Six poems / Najwan Darwish -- Thirteen poems / Nazem El Sayed -- America / Rabee Jaber -- Story of my building / Randa Jarrar -- Guardians of the air / Rosa Yassin Hassan -- Scent of cinnamon / Samar Yezbek -- Nine poems / Samer Abou Hawwash -- Crime in Mataeem Street / Wajdi al Ahdal -- Raven's leg / Yahya Amqassim -- Two stories / Yassin Adnan -- Suicide 20, or The Hakimi Maqama / Youssef Rakha -- Nine poems / Zaki Baydoun -- Notes on the text -- Notes on the authors -- Notes on the translators.

"Beirut 39 presents the best work of young Arab writers from around the world. Selected by a panel of eminent Arab critics, writers and editors, in a competition sponsored by the Hay Festival, these thirty-nine emerging talents are all under the age of thirty-nine, and hail from sixteen different countries-from Morocco to Oman, from Sudan to the Netherlands and France. Their fiction and poetry collected here represents the vibrancy and diversity of Arab literature today."--Publisher.

Arabic fiction -- Translations into English.

Short stories, Arabic.

Shimon, Samuel, 1956-

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