Moustafa Farroukh Is Dead

The oil grew scant unto dryness... and the tender lamp went out — the artist Moustafa Farroukh is dead — as though the last years of his short life had been a troubling dream that broke his rest and the rest of his family and his friends.. He played his part with surpassing fidelity in the great tragedy of the arts... And yesterday his soul returned, fluttering, to its Lord, leaving behind a faithful wife, a handful of little ones, a house heaped with paintings — and a decoration!..