Ghaib Tuma Farman was an Iraqi novelist, born in Baghdad in 1927 and died in Moscow in 1990. A native of the Al-Murabba’a neighborhood in Baghdad, Ghaib Tuma Farman is an Iraqi writer with numerous publications. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra says of him: “Ghaib Tuma Farman is almost the only Iraqi writer who truly composes the characters and events in his novels.” Dr. Zuhair Yassin Shalabih defended a doctoral dissertation at the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies in 1984, devoted to Ghaib Tuma Farman’s works. He described his novel “The Palm Tree and the Neighbors” as “a masterpiece of modern Arabic literature,” considering it the first artistic Iraqi novel that possesses the elements of the novel genre according to its modern European specifications. Books devoted to his works have been published, such as Dr. Zuhair Yassin Shalabih’s “Ghaib Tuma Farman: A Comparative Critical Study of the Iraqi Novel,” published by Dar Al-Kunuz Al-Adabiya in Beirut in 1996, and Professor Ahmed Al-Numan’s “Ghaib Tuma Farman.” “The Literature of Exile and Longing for Homeland” also in 1996, which includes articles by several well-known Iraqi writers devoted to him and their memories of him.