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This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif. To depict a world renowned for its poverty, ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of honor, Mohamed Mustagab deploys the black humor and Swiftian sarcasm of the insider who knows his society only too well.

MOHAMED MUSTAGAB was born in the Upper Egyptian town of Dayrut in 1938. He received little formal education but secured a post at the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo and rose to the position of general director. He published his first short story in the magazine al-Hilal in 1968 and continued to write prolifically throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, receiving numerous prizes over the course of his long career. From the Secret Life of Numan Abdel Hafez was awarded the State Incentive Prize in 1984 and was chosen as one of the top hundred novels from the Arab world in the last century. Mohamed Mustagab died in 2006.

HUMPHREY DAVIES is the translator of Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building and Friendly Fire (AUC Press, 2008) and Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, for which he was awarded the Banipal Prize for Literary Translation. He was awarded the 2010 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Yalo by Elias Khoury.

Dayrut al-Sharif
Hulagu	p. 3
The Battle of the Camel	p. 10
The Acacia Dog	p. 14
Assassination	p. 19
Bughayli Bridge	p. 24
Operation Kidnap Amira	p. 35
The Offering	p. 40
Sunflowers	p. 60
Horsemen Adore Perfumes	p. 75
A Woman	p. 78
The Edge of the Day	p. 83
Naked He Went His Way	p. 89
One Way Only	p. 93
The J-B-Rs	p. 102
The Secret History of Nu'man Abd al-Hafiz
On His Birthplace and Lineage	p. 117
On His Childhood and Youth	p. 128
On Perdition	p. 136
For the Majestic, and Also Beautiful, Lady!	p. 145
An Intermediate Chapter	p. 154
On the Empty Tomb	p. 161
On the Circumcision	p. 169
On How the Circumcision Was Completed	p. 177
On the Days of Might	p. 184
On the Preparations for the Wedding	p. 190
On the Wedding!	p. 198
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Tales from Dayrut Short Stories

Tales from Dayrut Short Stories

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