Acknowledgments

The Publisher and the Editor wish to thank all those whose kind advice and assistance made possible the preparation of material for this collection, notably Edmund Asfur, William Astill, Raif Bellama, Abdullah Bilkhair, Paul Bowles, Henry Carlisle, John K. Cooley. Adib el-Jader, H. E. Faris Bey el-Khouri, Hassan Fathy, Shafiq Ghorbal, Khaldun Husri, Mounah Dhouri, C. F. MacIntyre, Ragai Malakli, Margaret Marcus, John Marshall, Gerald Messadie, and Sumaiva Zahawi. Acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for reprint permission: Editions Denoel for “The Pilgrimage” from Le passe simple (1954); Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd. for “A Scholar’s Boyhood" from The Stream of Days (1948); New Directions for “The Death of Mohammed” from New Directions 15 (1955); The Renaissance Bookshop for “The Comedy of Death” from Tales from Egyptian Life; La Colomhe for “The Rebel,”“Memories of Childhood,” and “Dr. Choumayyil’s Cat” from Les Plus Beaux Textes Arabes; Al-Kulliyah Magazine for “Two Lebanese Mountain Poems (March 1954); The Pilot Press for “Three Proverbs” from Images from the Arab World, (1944). Works not followed by the name of a translator have been written in English.