Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story

Zakariyya Tamir is Syria''s foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first English language monograph on Tamir''s entire oeuvre, Alessandro Columbu examines Tamir''s literary development in the context of changing political contexts, from his beginnings as a short story writer on local magazines in the late 1950s until the Syrian revolutio...