A Retired Gentleman and other stories Yousef al-Mohaimeed Rachida el-Charni: Short stories Life

Rachida el-Charni: Short stories Life on the Edge and The Furnace

Through what sluices has it swept

Michael Heffernan

INTERVIEW with Edwar al-Kharrat

edited by Denys Johnson-Davies

A Retired Gentleman and other stories Yousef al-Mohaimeed Rachida el-Charni: Short stories LifeAfter a lifetime working as a professor of Arabic literature and a translator of contemporary Arab authors into English, the author now regales his readers with a rich medley of tales that will continue to resonate long after the book is put down. His characters are mainly migrants to Canada and the USA from Palestine Lebanon and Syria, starting their lives again, dealing with their memories, with pasts that cannot be recalled, with exile, with just