The Nightingale’s Prayer is a novel by Taha Hussein published in 1934. Taha Hussein dedicated the book to Abbas Al-Akkad in the introduction. The Lebanese poet Khalil Mutran drew inspiration from the novel’s atmosphere. The novel was translated into French in 1949. It was adapted into a film in 1959, directed by Henry Barakat, with Taha Hussein lending his voice to the film’s ending credits.
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