title: A Balcony over the Fakihani (Interlink World Fiction)
author: Liyana Badr
description: "These novellas effectively represent war and suffering from the point of view of disenfranchised peoples, both Beirutis and Polestinians. Recommended..."
zlib_text: LIYANA BADR
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2012
  http://archive.org/details/balconyoverfakihOOIiya
  
  A BALCONY
  over the FAKIHANI
  
  A BALCONY
  over the FAKIHANI
  Three Novellas by
  Liyana Badr
  translated from the Arabic by
  Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley
  introduction by Barbara Harlow
  INTERLINK BOOKS
  An imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
  NEW YORK
  
  First published in English 1993 by
  INTERLINK BOOKS
  An imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
  99 Seventh Avenue
  BrooUyn, New York 11215
  English translation copyright © Salma Khadra Jayyusi, 1993
  Introduction copyright © Barbara Harlow, 1993
  Original Arabic copyright © Liyana Badr, 1983
  Originally published in Arabic as Shurfa
  'ala 1-Fdkihdnt,
  Beirut, 1983
  All rights reserved. No part of this pubUcation may
  be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted
  in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
  photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior
  permission of the publisher.
  Library of Congress Catal