Osama Alomar

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“Transcending their less-than-lofty origins, Alomar’s enigmatic flash fictions blur the lines between aphorism, parable, and fairy tale, often personifying household objects and animals to comment on modern politics and the human condition.” - Vice Magazine

“With their strange wisdom, wild personification, and fatalism, these miniature parables, or prose-poems, helped give words to the absurdly frustrating and sometimes terrifying experience of life in the Assad police state in the decade leading up to the Syrian Revolution. Alomar writes from a deep-seated belief in the act of writing as capable of transcending place and time.” —Lydia Davis, ‘The New Yorker’

“If Kafka had rewritten Aesop’s fables, the result might have looked like this thought-provoking collection of literary allegories and aphorisms.” - Lincoln Michel, The New York Times

“Despite their apparent playful wit, Alomar’s deceptively slight short stories have teeth and bite. In spare, accessible prose, one encounters the painful and bitter poetry of exile running like a blood-red thread through this slim but dense collection of flash fiction.” - Yahia Lababidi, World Literature Today

“Alomar’s stories are alternatively hilarious , portentous, and utterly poetic.” - The Brooklyn Rail

“Alomar’s work speaks to the power that words can have when they’re contrained, be it by style or necessity … a master of the form.” - Bradley Babendir, New Republic

A Conversation with Osama Alomar - Pittsburgh City Paper

No Longer Driving A Cab, A Syrian Writer In America Focuses On His Fiction - Mythili G. Rao, ‘The New Yorker’

Osama Alomar Describes The Syrian Conflict One Very Short Story At A Time - Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader

Off-White - Sarah Mower, Vogue

Writing In Exile, Syrian Author’s Tales Confront Human ‘Contradiction, Complexity, Madness’- Sama Mohammed and Tariq Adely, Syria Direct

Stories Like a Bullet: An Interview with Osama Alomar - Sam Jaffe Goldstein, Los Angeles Review of Books

Exiled writers, Artists From Across The World Find Refuge In Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum - Michelle Chavez, Fox News