Time and place in some stories of Hama Karim Arif

Time and place are two essential elements in the literary genre, like story, either it was short story, long story or novel, in which it may talk about them together or separately. Hama Karim Arif, in his stories attempts to inform us that storyteller uses time and place for merging the events and contents of the story and always tries to use fictional or semi fictional places and internal, external, objective and subjective places. This study consists of two parts, first part consists of short story, history and elements of short story. Second part, we tried to apply these researches to some of his stories. Finally, the researches and abstract.