A prominent practitioner of the Arabic very short story (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar s poetic fictions embody the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran filtered through the violent gray absurdity of Assad s police state. Fullblood Arabian is the first publication of Alomar s strange, often humorously satirical allegories, where good and evil battle with indifference, avarice, and compassion using striking imagery and effervescent language."
A prominent practitioner of the Arabic very short story (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar s poetic fictions embody the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran ...
Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind's creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate new realities and make us see our reality anew. Reading Alomar's sly moral fables and sharp political allegories, the reader always sits up a little straighter, and a little wiser. Here is the title story:
Some of the teeth of the comb were envious of the class differences that...
Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind's creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are a...
