The standout feature of Mohammad Kharroubi's narrative text is the intense brevity and reaching the essence through the shortest paths, avoiding any complexity or stylistic embellishment and wordiness without purpose. His story topics and characters are drawn from the core of life, just as he derives his narrative language from the speech of simple and ordinary people from villages, neighborhoods, suburbs, neighbors, relatives, the marginalized, and the poor. This reflects their daily concerns, conversations, news, secrets, pains, loud and silent cries, unhappiness, struggles, contentment, and discontent... and what escapes their tongues or emerges from behind the walls of silence, patience, and concealment with each new sunrise. Furthermore, the storyteller Mohammad Kharroubi is indeed one of them. Is there then any need to question the line separating reality from text? Between the narrator and what is narrated? ... Mohammad Zino Chorman
Mohammad Kharroubi, a writer from Sarafand, Southern Lebanon. Published works include: 'Unveiling the Hidden' (a collection of stories), Dar wa Maktabat Al-Hayat, 1998; 'Symphony of Blood' (a collection of stories), Dar Al-Farabi, 1st edition, 2006, 2nd edition, 2009; 'Clear Image, Blurred Image' (a collection of stories), Dar Al-Farabi, 2012.

Publishing house: Dar Al-Farabi for Publishing and Distribution
Number of Pages: 104
Year of publication: 2015