Seventeen short stories by such well-known writers as Abdullah, Idris, Mahfouz, Taher, Ibrahim, Sharouni, Fahmy, Sibai, and Haqqi.                                                                                                                                           

The late Denys Johnson-Davies, one of the leading Arabic-English translators of our time, published more than twenty volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature. He lives in England.