Historical Background. Jews and Modern Arab Culture
First Literary Attempts
The Realistic Stage
After the Immigration
The Shift to Hebrew
Between Identity and Literature
Epilogue: Fiction, Meta-Fiction, and History
Appendix: Short Stories. Between the Fangs of the Sea / Fatā Isrā'īl
The Miserable Man / Murād Mīkhā'īl
Violette / Anwar Shā'ul
True Copy / Ya'qūb Balbūl
A Caravan from the Village / Shalom Darwīsh
His Tragedy, a Proverb / Maryam al-Mullā
The Schoolteacher / Mīr Baṣrī
The Artist and the Falafel / Sammy Michael
Chivalry / Esperance Cohen-Moreh
The Story of the Perforator / Shalom Darwīsh
The Cellar / Isḥāq Bār-Moshe
Sheikh Shabtāy / Maurice Shammās
A Dancer from Baghdad / Shmuel Moreh
Iyya / Shimon Ballas
Prophecies of a Madman in a Cursed City / Samīr Naqqāsh
s Anā min al-Yahūd / Almog Behar.