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Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature) by selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time.<br> He continued

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Author

selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

Publisher

The American University in Cairo Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617974571

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Anthology

Updated

2026-03-25