num_pages: 123
description: Here for the first time is a volume of short stories from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant center of the Arab world. Life before oil in this region was harsh and many of the stories in this collectionby both men and women from all corners of the countrytell of those times and the almost unbelievable changes that have come about in the space of two generations. Some tell of the struggles faced in the early days while others bring the immediate past and the present together revealing that the past with all its difficulties and dangers nonetheless possesses a certain nostalgia. Abdul Hamid Ahmed Roda al-Baluchi Hareb al-Dhaheri Nasser Al-Dhaheri Maryam Jumaa Faraj Jumaa al-Fairuz Nasser Jubran Saleh Karama Lamees Faris al-Marzuqi Mohamed al-Mazroui Ebtisam Abdullah Al-Mualla Ibrahim Mubarak Mohamed al-Murr Sheikha al-Nakhy Mariam Al Saedi Omniyat Salem Salma Matar Seif Ali Abdul Aziz al-Sharhan Muhsin Soleiman Aishaa al-Zaaby.
language: English
title: In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
publisher: The American University in Cairo Press