![]() ![]() The latter story deals with the people of Upper Egypt, for whom the writer had a special understanding and affection. ![]() In the following two stories, ‘‘Mother of the Destitute’’ and ‘‘A Story from Prison, ’’ he describes with typical sympathy individuals who, less privileged than others, somehow manage to scrape through life’s hardships. In the first story in this volume, the very short ‘‘Story in the Form of a Petition, ’’ Yahya Hakki demonstrates his ease with gentle humor, a form rare in Arabic writing. ![]() Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and-of course-Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature, began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic. ![]()
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