سارة راضي بشارةأ.م.د احمد حيال جهاد2025-02-252025-02-252018-06-24https://dspace.utq.edu.iq/handle/123456789/872A short story is considered a form of modern literature which originated in the late 19th century, in that it is considered natural means of expression of realism that cares about nothing but exploration of the facts consisted of small, normal and ordinary things. For it is the closest literary art to the Zeitgeist because it has transferred the task of long stories from generalization to privatization, in that it benefits from and interacts with all literary genres. Many short stories consist of a character or a group of characters who are presented against a background or in situation, indulging in a state of mind or affairs. Hence, the researcher selected one of the most prominent figures in the short story, namely the storyteller, (Mohamoud Yaqoub), for he was a leftist human voice preoccupied with the concerns of hometown people, their cities and their ideas, as well as with the suffering of all Iraqis from north to south, to reflect the suffering of the entire people during decades of our current history, criticizing and strongly rejecting all colors of hostility to humanity and marginalized of human dignity and freedom. Besides, his short stories have been characterized by a striking poetic language and sweet tone, in addition to his rhetoric that cautiously and knowingly overshadowed the narrative and the smoothness of the text. These are the reasons that drove my subject matter entitled, “ARTISTIC STRUCTURE IN MOHAMOUD YACOUB’S STORIES”, that would serve as a descriptive approach to study the elements of artistic structure in his stories in terms of time, setting, characters and narrative vision.text::thesis::master thesis