An edition of Zaynab: manāẓir wa-akhlāq rīfīyah
(1963)
Mohammed Hussein Haikal's Zainab
the first Egyptian novel
by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal, M. H. Haikal, and Murhammad Rhusayn Haykal
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The story of an Egyptian farm worker as she tries to come to terms with the difficult circumstances of an arranged marriage which she does not want. This first authentic Arabic novel portrays and explores the customs and traditions of rural Egyptian at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Mohammed Hussein Haikal's Zainab: the first Egyptian novel
1989, Darf Publishers
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1850772150 9781850772156
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"It was the time when the world comes back to life, when the total silence which reigns over the peasant villages during the night is broken by the call of the muezzin and the crow of the cockerel."
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Arabic ed. first published in 1913.
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| October 31, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Oregon Libraries MARC record |