← Yusuf IdrisThe Cheapest Nightsby Yusuf IdrisShort story collection depicting the lives of Egypt's urban poor and working classFind on Amazon↗About the authorYusuf IdrisEgyptian short story writer who brought vernacular Egyptian Arabic and the lives of the rural poor to the forefront of Arabic fiction. He is considered the Chekhov of Arabic literature for his mastery of the short story form.More by Yusuf IdrisCity of Love and Ashes→The SinnersNovel about moral corruption and human vice in urban Egypt→The Black Policeman→