arabic short story

story: The Country Boy author: Yusuf al-Sibai year:  ? (early 20th century)  where: home, kitchen table (again!)  note: translated by the great Denys Johnson-Davis, who was the first, really, to recognize the explosion of Arabic short story writing following WWII  a line: “Though he looked silent and quiet, it was a case of still waters running deep. With closed eyes and lowered head, all shyness and diffidence, he would sit beside his father, oozing innocence, when all the…