A Retired Gentleman and other stories Yousef al-Mohaimeed and to improve the material

and to improve the material lives of the poor

Khaled Mattawa The Relation of my Influences

Through what sluices has it swept

with an introduction

A Retired Gentleman and other stories Yousef al-Mohaimeed and to improve the materialAfter a lifetime working as a professor of Arabic literature and a translator of contemporary Arab authors into English, the author now regales his readers with a rich medley of tales that will continue to resonate long after the book is put down. His characters are mainly migrants to Canada and the USA from Palestine Lebanon and Syria, starting their lives again, dealing with their memories, with pasts that cannot be recalled, with exile, with just