Craig LoomisThe Salmiya Collection: Stories of the Life and Times of Modern Kuwait

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Review Named after a fashionable district overlooking the Gulf, filled with elegant shopping malls, an American university, and an ever-increasing number of hotels and tall residential buildings, this collection, in many ways, captures the spirit of life in modern Kuwait. Here one finds vignettes about the Kuwaiti nationals and the expatriates who come to Kuwait for work, including professionals, service industry personnel, and laborers. Loomis describes their diverse experiences with insight and humor. Many of these stories touch the heart. A vivid and fascinating panorama. --Raymond Farrin, author of Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic PoetryLoomis's stories see the world from the perspective of the characters he depicts, foreigners and Kuwaitis alike... readers will enjoy and be provoked by The Salmiya Collection --Earl (Tim) Sullivan, professor and provost emeritus, American University in Cairo Read more About the Author Craig Loomis is associate professor of English and head of the Division of Humanities and Arts at the American University of Kuwait. He is the author of A Softer Violence: Tales of Orient (Minerva Press, 1995), and his short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, Louisville Review, and the Prague Revue. Read more