CONTENTS

Translator’s Note

CHAPTER ONE

Where Is the Graveyard of Music?

The Quartets of Ibn Arus

CHAPTER TWO

Portrait of an Old Man in 6th of October

CHAPTER THREE

A Letter from Reem

A Portrait of Mona May at Twenty

A Flower in Full Bloom

Shafiqa of Alexandria

A Cocksucker’s Reprimand to His Fellow Cocksuckers

CHAPTER FOUR

The Road of Passion

The Animals of Cairo

The Nile Meets Paprika

CHAPTER FIVE

Night

Revenge Has No Place in Modern Life (1)

CHAPTER SIX

Revenge Has No Place in Modern Life (2)

Hefny Ahmed Hassan

Concerning the Influence of the Past on the Future

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Third Flower . . . Where Do I Put the Third Flower, Reem?

Muhammad Taha

Meeting the Doctor

The Graveyard of Music

Mind Control and Masturbation

One of These Days I Shan’t Awake

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

The Tree

CHAPTER TEN

Author’s Acknowledgments