Under the naked sky : short stories from the Arab world / selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.

The pilot / Mohamed Makhzangi -- It's not fair / Yusuf Idris -- The ill-omened golden bird / Ibrahim al-Koni -- Traveler with hand luggage / Naguib Mahfouz -- Death of a dagger / Zakaria Tamer -- Have you seen Alexandria Station? / Abdou Gubeir -- Women in fear / Inaam Kachachi -- An invitation / Gamal al-Ghitani -- The dog / Abd al-Aziz Mishri -- A dash of light / Ibrahim Aslan -- The cloud / Fuad al-Takarli -- The clock / Khairy Shalaby -- Fear / Ghalib Halasa -- Out in the open / Yusuf Abu Rayya -- The sound of singing / Salma Matar Seif -- The charge / Edwar al-Kharrat -- The apples of paradise / Brahim Dargouthi -- Corncobs / Salwa Bakr -- Snake hunting / Mohamed Zefzaf -- The money order / Mohamed El-Bisatie -- To the night's shelter / Mohamed Khudayir -- The man shouldn't know of this / Hanan al-Shaykh -- The day grandpa came / Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- My fellow passenger / Ibrahim Samouiel -- The women's room / Hana Atia -- It happened secretly / Amina Zaydan -- Whiteness of silver / Abdullah Bakhshaween -- The return of the prisoner / Buthayna al-Nasiri -- A boat on the water / Said al-Kafrawi -- Presence of the absent man / Alia Mamdouh.