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Article: Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
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- November 1, 2006
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Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed. New York. Columbia University Press. 2005. xix + 1056 pages. $59.50. ISBN 0-231-13254-9
SALMA JAYYUSI has once again delivered a splendid anthology of modern Arabic writing. Her first, a 1987 florilegium of modern Arabic poetry, also from Columbia University Press, set the standard for a literature that is not well represented in translation--unless you exclude Jayyusi's indefatigable efforts through the Project of Translation into Arabic (PROTA), that is. She has edited volumes of modern Arabian literature (1988), Palestinian literature (2992), and Arabic drama (1995, 2003) as well as numerous ...