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Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Among his best-known plays are ""The Sultan's Dilemma"" and ""The Tree Climber"". Tawfiq al-Hakim produced several of the earliest examples of Arabic novels, including the delightful ""Diary of a Country Prosecutor"", and many short stories. In an extract from ""The Prison of Life"", an autobiography, Tawfiq al-Hakim writes with commendable frankness about himself.

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TAWFIQ AL-HAKIM (1898-1989), Egypt's best-known playwright, did for the Arabic theater what Naguib Mahfouz did for the Arabic novel. He wrote over seventy plays, as well as a number of novels and short stories and an autobiography. DENYS JOHNSON-DAVIES, described by Edward Said as ""the leading Arabic-English translator of our time,"" began his career with the translation of a collection of short stories in 1947 and has since produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature. His latest translation is Mohamed El-Bisatie's Hunger (AUC Press, 2008).

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