Bird
Terror
The Doctor
The Investigation
Committee Meetings, Am I Right?
The Writer Exposed
ʿInānī's rendering of the protagonist of The Committee comes very close to his caricature of Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm...
Standing Before The Committee
The Committee, by Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm
From the 1982 Maṭbūʿāt al-Qāhirah edition, published in the spring and illustrated by the Egyptian artist Ṣalāḥ ʿInānī, born in 1955. You can find many of his playful portraits of everyday Egyptians online; the images in this edition of Ibrāhīm's modern classic The Committee carry a distinct hint of Ralph Steadman's drawings, particularly those he made of Hunter S. Thompson. Consider, for instance, The Doctor, whom ʿInānī portrays with jackboots, spectacles, and a menacing smile complete with a companion bird. He makes the stuff of nightmares oddly playful, and therefore jarring, uncanny, but all too real.
The Assassination of Lorca
From Asfār, March 1988
The Philosopher al-Āmidī
al-Faylasūf al-Āmidī, maʻa taḥqīq kitāb al-Mubīn fī sharḥ alfāẓ al-ḥukamāʼ wa-l-mutakallimīn, ḥaqqaqahu wa-qaddama la-hu wa-ʻallaqa ʻalayhi ʻAbd al-Amīr al-Aʻsam (Bayrūt: Dār al-Manāhil, 1987)
Unearthing an Old Wound
al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raʼūf, al-Nabsh fī jurḥ qadīm (Jiddah, al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabiyyah al-Saʻūdiyyah: Tihāmah, 1981)
Red Satans and Green March
Ghālib Ḥamzah Abū al-Faraj (Bayrūt: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīdah, 1983)
Faces Without Makeup
Ghālib Ḥamzah Abū al-Faraj, Wujūh bi-lā makyāj ; wa, Qulūb mallat al-tirḥāl : rīwayatān (Bayrūt: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīdah, 1985)
What's Before the After, and Other Stories
al-Sharīf al-Adraʻ (al-Jazāʼir: al-Sharikah al-Waṭaniyyah li-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzīʻ, 1982)
The Red Apple: Short Stories
Mirzāq Biqṭāsh (al-Jazāʼir: al-Muʼassasah al-Waṭaniyyah li-l-Kitāb, 1986)
Al-Mūmis wa-l-Baḥr: Qiṣaṣ
Mirzāq Biqṭāsh (al-Jazāʼir : al-Muʼassasah al-Waṭaniyyah li-l-Kitāb, 1986)
La Prise de Gibraltar: roman
Rachid Boudjedra, traduit de l'arabe par Antoine Moussali en collaboration avec l'auteur (Paris: Denoël, 1987)
The Chaos of Things, by Rachid Boujedra
al-Jazāʾir: Dār Būshān li-l-Nashr, 1990
Rachid Boujedra - Greffe (poèmes)
Rachid Boudjedra, traduits de l'arabe par Antoine Moussali en collaboration avec l'auteur (Paris: Denoël, 1984)