Translating Libya
Subtitle: the modern Libyan short story
By: [compiled and translated by] Ethan Chorin.
Contributors: Chorin, Ethan Daniel.; London Middle East Institute.
Series: SOAS Middle East issues
Publisher: Saqi; In association with London Middle East Institute SOAS
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Berkeley, Calif; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780863566479
Subjects: Chorin, Ethan Daniel -- Travel -- Libya.; Short stories, Arabic -- Libya.; Short stories, Arabic -- History and criticism.; Libya -- Social conditions.; Libya -- Description and travel.; Libya -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-238).
Table of contents: title: 1: Setting the scene; title: Putting 'Libya' back in Libyan short fiction; title: In search of stories; title: 2: Stories from the East; title: Benghazi and environs; title: The good-hearted salt seller / Sadiq Nayhoum; title: Hotel Vienna / Wahbi Bouri; title: The Quay and the rain / Ramadan Abdalla Bukheit; title: My friends when I die / Abdel Raziq Al-Mansuri; title: The yellow rock / Saleh Saad Younis; title: The spontaneous journey / Najwa Ben Shetwan; title: The mute / Abdullah Ali Al-Gazal; title: Stories from the South; title: The Sultain's Flotilla / Sadiq Nayhoum; title: The locusts / Ahmed Ibrahim Fagih; title: From door to door / Maryam Salama; title: Mill Road / Ahmed Mohammed Lannaizy; title: Stories from the West; title: Tripoli and the Old City; title: Caesar's return / Meftah Genaw; title: The castle and the water / Ziad Ali; title: The old hotel or Miloud and Rubina's story / Kamel Maghur; title: Tripoli story / Lamia El-Makki; title: Special edition / Ali Mustapha Misrati; title: 3: Interpreting the stories; title: On the Libyan short story; title: Three generations of economic shock; title: Migration; title: Minorities; title: The Libyan psyche; title: Libyan women: moving backwards, forwards, or looking for a third way?