from No one sleeps in Alexandria / Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (b. 1946) Egypt -- Ya Khabiir / Mohammad Abdul-Wali (1940-73) Yemen -- Rhythms in slow time / Yahya Taher Abdullah (1942-81) Egypt -- The discontented / Leila Abouzeid (b. 1950) Morocco -- Dreams seen by a blind boy / Yusuf Abu Rayya (b. 1955) Egypt -- from Dongola / Idris Ali (b. 1940) Egypt -- The doctor's prescription / Daisy Al-Amir (b. 1935) Iraq -- I saw the date-palms / Radwa Ashour (b. 1946) Egypt -- The little girl in green from Nile sparrows / Ibrahim Aslan (b. 1939) Egypt -- from The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany (b. 1957) Egypt -- from A land of stone and thyme / Liana Badr (b. 1950) Palestine -- from A certain woman / Hala El Badry (b. 1954) Egypt -- Dotty Noona ; from The golden chariot / Salwa Bakr (b. 1949) Egypt -- from The tiller of waters / Hoda Barakat (b. 1952) Lebanon -- Life by installments / Mohammed Barrada (b. 1938) Morocco -- Drought ; from Clamor of the lake / Mohamed El-Bisatie (b. 1938) Egypt -- Flower crazy / Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003) Morocco -- from Dear Mr. Kawabata / Rashid al-Daif (b. 1945) Lebanon -- from The hostage / Zayd Mutee' Dammaj (1943-98) Yemen -- Apples of paradise / Brahim Dargouthi (b. 1955) Tunisia -- from Gardens of the night / Ahmad Faqih (b. 1942) Libya -- Sunset / Fathy Ghanem (1924-98) Egypt -- from Zayni Barakat / Gamal al-Ghitani (b. 1945) Egypt -- Cairo is a small city / Nabil Gorgy (b. 1944) Egypt --

Have you seen Alexandria station? / Abdou Gubeir (b. 1950) Egypt -- At last the almond blossomed / Emile Habiby (1921-96) Palestine -- from Diary of a country prosecutor / Tawfik al-Hakim (1898-1987) Egypt -- from The lamp of Umm Hashim ; A story from prison / Yahya Hakki (1905-92) Egypt -- from The Net / Sherif Hetata (b. 1923) Egypt -- from The polymath / Bensalem Himmich (b. 1949) Morocco -- from A man of letters / Taha Hussein (1889-1973) Egypt -- The old man / Gamil Atia Ibrahim (b. 1937) Egypt -- from Zaat ; from The committee / Sonallah Ibrahim (b. 1937) Egypt -- from Sabriya: Damascus bitter sweet / Ulfat Idilbi (b. 1912) Syria -- House of flesh ; from City of love and ashes / Yusuf Idris (1927-91) Egypt -- The dead afternoon / Walid Ikhlassi (b. 1935) Syria -- from In search of Walid Masoud / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919-94) Palestine -- The hill of gypsies / Said al-Kafrawi (b. 1939) Egypt -- The slave fort ; from Men in the sun / Ghassan Kanafani (1936-72) Palestine -- from Wild thorns / Sahar Khalifeh (b. 1941) Palestine -- from Rama and the dragon / Edwar al-Kharrat (b. 1926) Egypt -- from A sky so close / Betool Khedairi (b. 1965) Iraq -- from The journey of little Gandhi / Elias Khoury (b. 1948) Lebanon -- Clocks like horses / Mohamed Khudayir (b. 1942) Iraq -- from The bleeding of the stone ; The ill-omened golden bird / Ibrahim al-Koni (b. 1948) Libya -- The conjurer made off with the dish ; from Arabian nights and days ; from Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Egypt --

The pilot / Mohamed Makhzangi (b. 1950) Egypt -- Presence of the absent man / Alia Mamdouh (b. 1944) Iraq -- from Fragments of memory / Hanna Mina (b. 1924) Syria -- from Memory in the flesh / Ahlam Mosteghanemi (b. 1953) Algeria -- Benevolence / Sabri Moussa (b. 1932) Egypt -- from Endings / ʼAbd al-Rahman Munif (1933-2004) Saudi Arabia -- Your uncle was a poet / Muhammad al Murr (b. 1955) United Arab Emirates -- I've been here before / Buthaina Al Nasiri (b. 1947) Iraq -- A house not her own / Emily Nasrallah (b. 1931) Lebanon -- from Prairies of fever / Ibrahim Nasrallah (b. 1954) Egypt -- Nights of musk / Haggag Hassan Oddoul (b. 1944) Egypt -- Three meaningless tales / Yusuf al-Qaʼid (b. 1944) Egypt -- The whistle / Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935-90) Egypt -- from Leaves of narcissus / Somaya Ramadan (b. 1951) Egypt -- An incident in the Ghobashi household / Alifa Rifaat (1930-95) Egypt -- She has no place in paradise ; from Woman at point zero / Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931) Egypt -- from Season of migration to the north ; from Bandarshah ; The Cypriot man / Tayeb Salih (b. 1929) Sudan -- A gypsy without a haven / Ghada Samman (b. 1942) Syria -- My fellow passenger / Ibrahim Samouiel (b. 1951) Syria -- Distant seas / Habib Selmi (b. 1951)Tunisia -- The clock / Khairy Shalaby (b. 1938) Egypt -- The Persian carpet ; from Beirut blues / Hanan al-Shaykh (b. 1945) Lebanon -- from The tent / Miral al-Tahawy (b. 1968) Egypt --

from Love in exile / Bahaa Taher (b. 1935) Egypt

from The long way back / Fuad al-Takarli (b. 1927)

A summary of what happened to Mohammed al-Mahmoudi / Zakaria Tamer (b. 1929) Syria

from Dunyazad / May Telmissany (b. 1965) Egypt

The comedy of death / Mahmoud Teymour (1894-1974) Egypt

The dream / Abdel Salam al-Ujaili (b. 1918) Syria

The day grandpa came / Mahmoud Al-Wardani (b. 1950) Egypt

from The earthquake / Tahir Wattar (b. 1936) Algeria

from The open door / Latifa al-Zayyat (1923-96) Egypt

Snake hunting / Mohamed Zefzaf (1945-2001).