Lamp of Umm Hashim And Other Stories

Name: Lamp of Umm Hashim And Other Stories
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ISBN: 9789774249709

ISBN-10: 9774249704

ISBN-13: 9789774249709

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Authors: Yahya Hakki, Denys Johnson-Davies

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Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and - of course - Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature, began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic. In the first story in this volume, the very short 'Story in the Form of a Petition,' Yahya Hakki demonstrates his ease with gentle humor, a form rare in Arabic writing. In the following two stories, 'Mother of the Destitute' and 'A Story from Prison,' he describes with typical sympathy…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 106
Size: 7.80" wide x 4.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Yahya Hakki (1905-90) started life as a lawyer and then served in different parts of the world as a diplomat. After resigning from the Diplomatic Service he devoted himself wholly to writing and became one of that small group of exceptionally talented men who, some half a century ago, laid the foundations for the literary renaissance in Egypt



Translator's IntroductionStory in the Form of a Petition


Mother of the DestituteA Story from PrisonThe Lamp of Umm Hashim