Modern Arab Literature 

Absent
      Betool Khedairi
The Cheapest Nights and Other Stories      
      Yusuf Idris
Ibn Fadlan and the Rusiyyah    
      James E. Montgomery
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma 
     Naguib Mahfouz
Men in the sun and other Palestinian stories
      Ghassan Kanafani
Season of Migration to the North
      Tayeb Salih
The Story of Zahra 
      Hanan al-Shaykh

Ameen Rihani was honored by the Library of Congress
In 1911, Dodd, Mead and Co. in New York published "The Book of Khalid" by Ameen Rihani (1876-1940). The fictional account of two Lebanese boys who immigrate to New York at the turn of the century is considered to be the first novel by an Arab-American written in English. Its themes still resonate today: ideal relations between Americans and Arabs and the rightful position of Arabs within the great American story of immigration.

Rihani—the most influential, prolific and world-renowned Arab-American author of the early 20th century— and his seminal work will be the focus of a symposium to be held at the Library of Congress from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29 in Room LJ-119, located on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

Classical Arab Literature 

An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades:  Memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh

‘Antar and ‘Abla : A Bedouin Romance 

Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes 
      'Alqama, Shanfara, Labid, 'Antara, Al-A'sha, and Dhu al-Rumma

The Journey of Ibn Battuta

One Thousand and One Nights

Academic and Scholarly Works

The Colonizer and the Colonized
      Albert Memmi

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