num_pages: 372
description: Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies described by Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator of our time arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time asMahmoud Teymour Yahya Hakki Yusuf Gohar and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time.He continued to translate over the decades and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum ofstyles and includes works by Teymour Hakki Gohar and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie Said el-Kafrawi Bahaa Taher and Radwa Ashour as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar Mansoura Ez Eldin and Youssef Rakha.
language: English
title: Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
publisher: The American University in Cairo Press