This selection of Ibrahim Malik's short stories and poetry brings together an illustrative compendium of his works, which propose a genuine portrait of the numerous predicaments, concerns, apprehensions, and coercions from which the Arab community inside Israel suffers. To a great extent, these difficulties are currently the lot of many ethnic groups and communities in the Middle East and many other parts of the world. General readers of this work will take pleasure in exploring a different culture, while specialists interested in Arabic literature will find new and bountiful grounds for academic study.

Jamal Assadi received his PhD in English literature from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He is currently Senior Lecturer (A) in the Department of English at Sakhnin College, where he has occupied several key offices. He previously worked at various colleges in Israel and at An-Najah National University, Nablus. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, Dr. Assadi is the author of Acting, Rhetoric, and Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (Lang, 2006); co-author of The Road to Self-Revival: Sufism, Heritage, Intertextuality and Meta-Poetry in Modern Arabic Poetry (Lang, 2011); co-editor of A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald (Lang, 2007); and translator and editor of many books. Dr. Assadi also writes children's stories.

Contents: Short Fiction - Poetry.