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."