Short Tales from the Middle East is a compilation of eloquent, beautifully written short stories from regions across Pakistan, India and the Middle East written by Muhammad Nasrullah Kahn - an Engligh Lecturer at Talif University in Saudi Arabia. They focus on a variety of characters and their stories; from one which tells the tale of the interest and the empathy of a boy towards an untouchable who works in his fathers farm to another that runs the first person narrative of how an injured soldier is looked after by a mother from the other side whos own son died in their war.