Series Editor’s Foreword; Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration and Translation; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Literary Solitude: Autobiography, Modernity, and Independence; 1 From Solitude to Stealth: Taha Hussein and Sonallah Ibrahim; 2 Revolutionary Memoirs: Assia Djebar and Latifa al-Zayyat; 3 Palestine Song: Mahmoud Darwish and Mourid Barghouti; 4 Revolutionary Solitude: Edward Said and Najla Said; 5 Dreaming of Solitude: Haifa Zangana and Alia Mamdouh; 6 Tahrir Memoirs: Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince; Epilogue: Arab Literature, World Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index.