Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume O

Unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant

Unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant

Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini sBrains Confoundedcombines a mordant satire on s

"Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates"--