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By several Arab authors: Salwa Bakr, Zakariya Tamer, Abdulah Hakam, Idris al-Saghir, Mohammed Mesud al-Ajami, Abdul Sattar Nassir, Adil Kamil, Hadiya Hussein, and Fakhri Qaawar.With contributions from Srpko Leštarić, who initially translated the works from Arabic into Serbian, Edward Alexander who then translated them into English and the preface by Milena Dragićević Šešić."This short selection of forbidden, censored or harshly criticised stories by contemporary Arab writers of the "middle generation" represents in the best way not only the tradition of storytelling, but also the culture of rebellion and dissent that has long been part of Arab societies.The stories were collected, selected and translated of a period of twelve years as the Serbian editor and translator Srpko Leštarić came across them, and are accompanied by masterful descriptions about the fate of the authors, their texts, and the art of translating from Arabic."At the time of this addition this book is not available for purchase but can be read on the European Cultural Foundation website through the download of a PDF file and you can also order a hardcopy through there: culturalfoundation[.]eu

From her cell in a women's prison, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her to heaven, where her wishes and dreams can be fulfilled. As she muses on who to take with her, she tells the life stories of her fellow prisoners and decides in her heart which ones deserve a free ride to paradise.

After an exorbitant land tax imposed on a country of mainly Coptic-speaking Christians by the caliph's governors in ninth-century Egypt sparks a peasant revolt, Bedeir is dispatched to the Nile Delta as an escort for a church- appointed emissary whose mission is to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.

Judging by the title of this collection of modern Egyptian short stories and fact that it parodies a series of misogynistic stories, "The Wiles of Women" A Thousand and One Nights, one might think that Salwa Bakr is advancing kind of rabidly feminist point of view. The truth of the matter, however, the woman author is dramatizing in a convincing way the plight of the echelons of Egyptian society, particularly that of women, whom she knows without having a preconceived philosophy to advance. No doubt, the plight such women is miserable and sometimes it drives them, as the stories desperate acts. -- From http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 28, 2016)