Anthology of Arabic short stories translated</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Anthology of Arabic short stories translated"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Anthology,of,Arabic,short,stories,translated"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">12-08-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Anthology of Arabic short stories translated</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Gazette): "Ancestral Hair” is an example of Bakr’s interest in writing of the poor and downtrodden, and in particular of the injustices inflicted on women and the ways in which women survive. The story appears in the anthology “Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader” published by Saqi publishing house of London and Beirut. The anthology contains a dozen short stories by masters of the form from across the Arab world, newly rendered into crisp and fluent English translation by the book’s editors Ronak Husni and Daniel L Newman. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.con&contentid=2008081114121 " target="blank">www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.con&contentid=2008081114121 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show