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The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim: Plays, Fiction, Autobiography Fiction in translation and on the hope andDenys Johnson Davies The importance of Tawfiq al Hakim (18981987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al Hakims fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the