Arab
- ISBN-10
- 9630189275
- ISBN-13
- 9789630189279
- Category
- Arabic language
- Language
- Arabic
- Published
- 1988
- Authors
- Abdel-Moneim Moukhtar, Dévényi Kinga, Iványi Tamás
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