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Shalom Darwish (1913-1997) was a writer, poet and layer from a jewish family. One of the members of Iraq's parliment during the 1940s.

Work
During the 1920s Darwish published short stories, poet and was a writer in "El-Hassed" magazine.Darwish published two collections of short stories when he was in Iraq: "احرار وعبيد" and "بعض الناس". One of the stories that appears in the collections is "Kapila min el-rif" (قافلة من الريف). The story is about a family from the country that decides to move the the big city, Baghdad. This story is one of his famous stories and the Lebanon literary critic Sahil Adris wrote about it: "one of the greatest creations in the Arabic literature".

According to Reuven Snir, Darwish's stories were ground breaking in Iraq's litreture.

Books

 * احرار وعبيد : مجموعة قصص، بغداد : مطبعة الرشيد، 1941.
 * بعض الناس، بغداد : شركة التجارة والطباعة، 1948.
 * بيضة الديك : مجموعة قصص، القدس : "الشرق"، 1976.
 * كل شيء هادئ في العيادة, اورشليم - القدس : رابطة الجامعيين اليهود النازحين من العراق في اسرائيل، 1981.
 * Fraim! Fraim! Tel aviv 1986