Includes Between War and Peace, Tender Hands, Food for the Millions, Poet on the Moon, and Voyage to Tomorrow.

Tawfiq al-Hakim is Egypt’s most famous playwright, as well as one of its most important essayists and novelists. His clear and unaffected style has contributed to the formation of modern Arabic. William M. Hutchins, principal translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, is professor of Islamic Studies at Appalachian State University.