The collection of the famous Egyptian prose writer, classic of Arabic literature, Nobel Prize laureate of 1988 includes the novels “Tales of Our Street” and “The Path” published in Russian for the first time, as well as the novel “The Thief and the Dogs” already known to the Soviet reader, in which the writer explores the stages of the spiritual history of mankind, trying to determine what each of them meant for saving people from social injustice and political tyranny.