Taleb Alrefai
was born in 1958 in Kuwait. He works for Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts, & Letters, and edits Jaridat Al-Fonoon, a monthly arts tabloid. He has published four collections of short stories and two novels, Shade of the Sun (Dar Al-Sharqiyyat, Cairo, 1998) and Samar's Words (Dar al-Mada, Damascus 2006).
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Banipal No 28 Spring 2007
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