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While the short story was not the first fictional genre to make its appearance during the course of the 19th century, it certainly was the first to adapt itself to a new cultural environment, as writers set about using it as a means of illustrating social problems. The pages of the press permitted early Egyptian pioneers in short narrative such as ʿAbd Allāh Nadīm and Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī to publish vignettes in which they cast a critical eye on the habits and foibles of their fellow countrymen, while in Lebanon Khalīl Jubrān (Khalil Gibran) and later Mīkhāʾīl Nuʿaymah analyzed the ...(100 of 18772 words)