Arabic literature

Book Reviews

• Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building
  - a novel of violence and corruption in Cairo
• Mohamed Choukri: For Bread Alone
  - a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
• Francesco Gabrieli: Arab Historians of the Crusades*
  - excerpts from nineteen Islamic writers
• Naguib Mahfouz: Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
  - a novel of ancient Egypt
• Naguib Mahfouz: Respected Sir; Wedding Song; The Search*
  - three short novels by the great Egyptian writer
• Tayeb Salih: Season of Migration to the North
  - a story of sexual obsession in Britain and Sudan

See also: African literature | Middle East | world literature