Yusuf Idris

The Cheapest Nights

Short story collection depicting the lives of Egypt's urban poor and working class

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Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris

Egyptian 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.

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