The lamp of Umm Hashim
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Yahya Hakki ; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
Contributors: Johnson-Davies, Denys.
Series: Modern Arabic writing
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cairo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Short stories, Arabic -- Translations into English.; Arab countries -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Translations into English.; Fiction.
Notes: "First published in Arabic in 1955, 1947, 1955, and 1944 as Qissa fi ʻardahal, Umm al-ʻawajiz, Qissa fi-l-sijn, and Qandil Umm Hashim"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Story in the form of a petition; title: Mother of the destitute; title: A story from prison; title: The lamp of Umm Hashim.