The Libyan Short Story

Ahmed Fagih, PhD. is a writer of international standing. His writings include the award winning trilogy Gardens of the night and a large body of novels, plays, short story collections, and essays.

His dramas were performed in so many countries and his books widely read and translated.

He found and chaired many institutions in his county and abroad among the posts he occupied the chairman of Arab Cultural Trust.

The general secretary of union of writers and artists, the director of the national institute of drama and music. He directed and performed many plays for the theatre group he founded in Tripoli The New Theatre.

He served as the head of his countries diplomatic missions in Athens and Bucharest. He is the chairman of the Mizda heritage society and was awarded the highest medal in his country The grand al-fatah medal.