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.