The Literature of Modern Arabia: An Anthology

A Pencil and a Noose -- Far, Far Away ... Over the Hills of the Corpse -- The Exile's Return -- The Need for a Second Heaven and an Additional Hell -- A New Definition of the Third World -- A Thousand Times More Beautiful -- A Covenant -- Sojourn Forever -- Free Harbour -- You Alone -- Regret -- Dismounting from the Dream-Saddle -- Fiddah Learns to Draw -- How Fear Dies -- The Sniper -- Dancing before the Queen -- The Body, the Joy -- Blind Minutes -- Defeat -- Presence -- What Keeps the Innocent Wakeful? -- Warmth of Blood -- Night and the Poet -- From the Road -- On Time -- The Last Worm