Books like Arkhaṣ layālī by Yūsuf Idrīs

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

Provides a digitized version of an early Persian edition from the rare book collection, Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences, Republic of Tajikistan; a project supported by the United States Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation.

A collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and―of course―Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature, began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic. The story deals with the people of Upper Egypt, for whom the writer had a special understanding and affection. It is, however, for the title story (in fact, more of a novella) of this collection that the writer is best known. Recounting the difficulties faced by a young man who is sent to England to study medicine and who then returns to Egypt to pit his new ideals against tradition, ‘‘The Lamp of Umm Hashim’’ was the first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures.

A novel about four young women from Riyadh navigating the cultural and romantic challenges of modern Saudi Arabia.