Arabic-L:LIT:Wants English language literary essays by Arabs

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Date:  22 Aug 2002
From:Tom Johnson <thj5 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Wants English language literary essays by Arabs

I would like to know if you have any recommendations on literary essays 
by Arabs. In looking through our university library's collection of 
Arabic texts (the English translations), I mostly find fiction, poetry, 
or autobiography, and almost no literary essays in the spirit of the New 
Yorker or the Best American Essays (e.g., Joseph Epstein, Andre Aciman 
style). What I'm looking for is something a step up either in literary 
quality or critical awareness than what one finds on ahram.org.  I'm 
hoping to use some of these essays as primers and models for entry-level 
college students taking English 101. Thanks in advance for any help,
Tom Johnson

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