• ABDUL-WALI, Mohammad: They Die Strangers (B+)
• ALAIDY, Ahmed: Being Abbas el Abd (B+)
• ALI, Idris: Poor (B)
• ALSANEA, Rajaa: Girls of Riyadh (B)
• ANTOON, Sinan: I'jaam (B+)
• al-ASWANY, Alaa:
  • Chicago (B)
  • Friendly Fire (B)
  • The Yacoubian Building (B+)
• al-AZZAWI, Fadhil:
  • Cell Block Five (B+)
  • The Last of the Angels (B)
• BADER, Ali: Papa Sartre (B)
• BLASIM, Hassan: The Madman of Freedom Square (B)
• al-DAIF, Rashid:
  • Dear Mr Kawabata (B)
  • Learning English (B)
• ELTAYEB, Tarek: Cities without Palms (B)
• FARGHALI, Ibrahim: The Smiles of the Saints (B+)
• al-GHITANI, Gamal:
  • Pyramid Texts (B+)
  • Zayni Barakat (B+)
• HAKKI, Yahya: The Lamp of Umm Hashim (B+)
• HAMDOUCHI, Abdelilah: The Final Bet (B)
• HIMMICH, Bensalem:
  • The Polymath (A-)
  • The Theocrat (B)
• IBRAHIM, Sonallah:
  • The Committee (B)
  • Zaat (A-)
• KHAMISSI, Khaled Al: Taxi (B)
• KHUDAYYIR, Mohammed: Basrayatha (B)
• MAHFOUZ, Naguib:
  • Adrift on the Nile (B)
  • Before the Throne (B)
  • Cairo Modern (B+)
  • The Cairo Trilogy (A-)
    • Palace Walk (A-)
    • Palace of Desire (B+)
    • Sugar Street (B+)
  • The Day the Leader Was Killed (A-)
  • The Dreams (B)
  • Echoes of an Autobiography (B)
  • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (A-)
  • Karnak Café (B)
  • Khufu's Wisdom (B+)
  • Life's Wisdom (-)
  • Morning and Evening Talk (A-)
  • Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber (B)
  • Respected Sir (B+)
  • Rhadopis of Nubia (B)
• MATAR, Selim: The Woman of the Flask (B)
• al-MOHAIMEED, Yousef: Wolves of the Crescent Moon (B+)
• NEIMI, Salwa Al: The Proof of the Honey (B-)
• QASIM, Abd al-Hakim: Rites of Assent (B)
• SHALABY, Khairy: The Lodging House (B)
• al-TAHAWY, Miral: Blue Aubergine (B+)
• TAHER, Bahaa: As Doha Said (B)
• TAMER, Zakaria:
  • Breaking Knees (B)
  • The Hedgehog (B)
• TAWFIK, M.M.: Murder in the Tower of Happiness (B)
• al-WARDANI, Mahmoud: Heads Ripe for Plucking (B)
  
  
• See also: JOHNSON-DAVIES, Denys: Memories in Translation (B) - A Life Between the Lines Of Arabic Literature
• See also: KILITO, Abdelfattah: Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (B+)
• See also: SAFOUAN, Moustapha: Why are the Arabs not Free ? (B) - The Politics of Writing
• See also: TRESILIAN, David: A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (B)

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