This edition published in 2017 by
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Copyright © 1960 by the Estate of Latifa al-Zayyat
First published in Arabic in 1960 as al-Bab al-maftuf
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English translation copyright © 2017 by Robin Moger

 

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ISBN 978 977 416 821 5
eISBN 978 1 61797 153 2

 

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