Heart of the Night

This e-book published in 2013 by

The American University in Cairo Press

113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt

420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018

www.aucpress.com

First published in Arabic in 1975 as Qalb al-layl

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication 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 written permission of the publisher.

ISBN 9781617973062

Cover photograph by Amr Khadr

Cover design by Andrea El-Akshar