Advanced Arabic Literary Reader Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is a truly representative collection of literary extracts from across the Arabic-speaking world. Extracts from each country in the Arab world have been carefully selected, with a balance of both male and female writers and prominent and emerging voices, providing a unique window into the Arab world. Suitable for both class use and independent study, each extract is supported by an introduction to the author, pre-reading activities, comprehension questions and discussion questions. These activities are designed to help learners expand and reinforce their vocabulary, develop their oral and written proficiency and stimulate further exploration of the cultural and historical background of the texts. Written entirely in Arabic, the Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is an essential text for advanced students who wish to further their reading, speaking, and writing ability in Modern Standard Arabic. Free audio recordings of the extracts are available online at www.routledge.com/books/ details/9781138828698/ to enable students to improve listening skills. Jonas M. Elbousty is the Director of the Arabic Summer program at Yale University where he teaches Arabic Language and Literature in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He recently co-published Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco’s Literary Tradition. Muhammad Ali Aziz holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He taught at Princeton University and at the University of Michigan. He is currently the Arabic Program coordinator at Yale University where he teaches Arabic Language and Literature in the department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations. He is the author of Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam: Theology and Sufism in Yemen. This page intentionally left blank Advanced Arabic Literary Reader For Students of Modern Standard Arabic Jonas M. Elbousty Muhammad Ali Aziz First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Jonas M. Elbousty and Muhammad Ali Aziz The right of Jonas M. Elbousty and Muhammad Ali Aziz to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. 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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-82868-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-82869-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-73817-8 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Dedicated to Aysha Muhammad Aziz & Adam Elbousty This page intentionally left blank Contents Foreword x Acknowledgments xii Introduction xiii Yemen ● Aziza, Abdallah, Arakanha al-Faqīh 1 ● Dammāj, Zayd, Tāhish al-Hubān 7 ● Abdulwalī, Muhammad, Al-Arad Yā Salmā 13 ● Al-Ahdal, Wajdī, Phaylasūf al-Karantīna 18 ● Al-Iryānī, Abdallah, Al-Zāriqeh 23 Saudi ● Khāl, Abdu, Tarmī bi Sharar 29 ● Fuzai‘, Khalīl, Ba‘d al-Zann 36 ● Munīf, Abdulrahmān, al-Nihāyāt 41 ● Jumbī or Jambī, Ihsān, al-Mawt alā al-Hawā 47 Oman ● Al-Ma‘marī, Alī, Bin Sūla‘ 54 ● Al-Rahabī, Mahmūd, Birkat al-Nisyān 61 Emirate ● Al-Nu‘aimī, Rashid, Shāhinda 66 ● Al-Murr, Muhammad, al-Fursa al-Akhīra 73 Bahrain ● Al-Mutawah, Masooma, Zill lā Tasa’uhu al-Shams (al-Qasr al-Mal‘ūn) 81 ● Khalifa, Abdallah, Ughniyat al-Mā’ 87 Qatar ● Fāizz, Jamāl, al-‘AAid 93 ● Khalifa, Delāl, Ashjār al-Barārī al-Ba’īda 99 ● Al-Nu‘aimī, Huda, Abāteel (Fī al-Hufra) 105 viii Contents Kuwait ● Al-San‘ūsī, Su‘ūd, Sāq al-Bambū 111 ● Al-‘Uthmān, Layla, Wasmiyya Takhruj min al-Bahr 119 ● Ismael, Fahd Ismael, al-Shiyāh 126 Iraq ● Al-Sa’dāwī, Ahmad, Frankishtine 133 ● Faramān, Ghā’ib, Alām al-Sayyid Ma‘rūf 140 ● Khalaf, Ahmad, Hāmil al-Hawā 146 Syria ● ‘Ujailī, ‘Abdussalām, al-Khayl wal-Nisā’ 152 ● Rifaa‘iyyah, Yāsīn, Ahdāb 158 ● Al-Rāhib, Hānī, al-Wabā’ 165 ● Mīna, Hanna, Hīn Māt al-Nahd 171 Lebanon ● Al-Shaykh, Hanān, Man Yu‘allimunī al-Biyānu 177 ● Subh, Alwaiya, Shai’ Ismuhu al-Ghrām 182 ● Khūrī, Elyās, Bāb al-Shams 188 ● Al-Da’īf, Rasheed, Tablīt al-Bahr 194 Jordan ● Nasrallah, Ibrāhīm, Shurfat Rajul al-Thalj (al-Jarīma) 201 ● Al-Tamīmī, Fayrūz, Ka’nnahā Mizha 207 ● Al-Razzāz, Mu’nis, al-Namrūd 214 ● Hilsa, Ghālib, Al-Wuqūf alā al-Atlāl 222 ● ‘Ayyāsh, Sāmiyah, Farāwla wa Ka‘k wa Shukulāta 228 Palestine ● Kanafānī, Ghassān, Rijāl Fī al-Shams 234 ● Zāhir, Hādī, al-Qātil al-Majhūl 240 ● Al-Raymāwī, Mahmūd, Hulm Haqīqī 247 Egypt ● Al-Aswānī, ‘Alā, ‘Imārat Ya‘qūbiān 255 ● Mahfouz, Najīb, Al‘āish fī al-Haqīqa 261 ● Al-Sa’dāwī, Nawāl, Imra’a ‘ind nuqtat al-Sifr 267 ● ‘Abdulqadduus, Ihsān, Fī Baytina Rajul 273 Sudan ● Sālih, al-Tayyib, Mawsim al-Hijra ilā al-Shimāl 280 ● Ibrāhīm, Ibrāhīm, Nās min Kāfā 287 ● Al-Sirr, Amīr Tāj, Ard al-Sudān 296 Contents ix Libya ● Al-Kawnī, Ibrāhīm, al-Tibr 303 Tunis ● Al-‘ayyādī, Abū Bakr, Warqāt min dafter al-Khawf 308 ● Al-Darghūthī, Ibrāhīm, ‘Arabat al-Daraja al-Mumtāza 315 ● Al-Sālmī, al-Habīb, Matahāt al-Raml 325 ● Al-Mabkhūt, Shukrī, al-Talyānī 332 Algiers ● Mustaghānmī, Ahlām, Dhākirat al-Jasad 339 ● Al-A‘raj, Wāsīnī, Tawq al-Yāsmīn 345 Morocco ● Shukrī, Muhammad, al-Khubz al-Hāfī 352 ● Al-Madīnī, Ahmad, Ta‘m al-Karaz 358 ● Al-Zifzāf, Muhammad, Al-Af’ā wal-Bahr 366 ● Kilito, Abdulfattāh, Bayna al-Haraka wal-Sukūn 372 ● Al-Ash‘arī, Muhammad, al-Qaws wal-Farāsha 378 Mauritania ● Sālem, Muhammad Wuld, Ashyā’ min ‘ālam qadīm 385