Author(s): Dalya Cohen-Mor
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Date : June 30, 2005
If anything was missed in this anthology, it was more stories written from an explicitly positive and religious perspective. Or maybe, that explicitly involved distinctly religious values as opposed to social ones.
Something that came close to being positive was Alifa Rifaat's "My Wedding Night," in which a woman overcame her distress on the first night, comforted by a Biblical story and the memory of a pure love from her childhood, and found that she and her husband could talk to one another and move beyond their anxiety.
Any serious collection that presents literature from this part of the world in English merits applause and attention. I'd certainly recommend this book. Other books to be recommended are Salma Khadra Jayyusi's 1056-page Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, also published in 2005, and Denys Johnson-Davies' Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction, published the following year.
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