Scattered pages:
- Every day is an opportunity to create something new for yourself. Comfort is not always in achieving what you want; Rather, it is in the extent of your awareness of contentment and satisfaction with what you have. Sometimes, you have to take a look at some of the scattered pages of your life, and smile with satisfaction at what you have achieved. If you know that what you are in will not last long, this does not mean that it is not worth the effort, trouble, and work to reach what you want. With everything you lose, you gain something. last.
It contains quotes about self-development and 60 positive values about happiness, success, and developing our lives for the better.
Zarb Al-Dabsh...
The Emirati writer, Juma Al-Laim, takes us to the world of Emirati heritage, in his novel recently published by Madad Printing and Publishing House, where he takes us between his lines to the old Furjan of Sharjah, in a narrative attempt to restore some of the images that are filled in the Emirati popular memory, about the period that witnessed the beginnings of transformation. Change and reform, and the period after the establishment of the United Arab Emirates, which embodied the aspirations of the people of the Emirates for a dear and civilized homeland.
In his novel, the writer focuses on the main hero in it, who is Abdul Rahman, and some of the contradictions and challenges that he experienced, like other young men at that stage, dealing in an interesting narrative style with social issues, such as the negatives that were prevalent in dealing with women, in terms of giving them the right to education, and obtaining... Its rights, many of which it was able to achieve, most notably education under the Union State.
It also brilliantly depicts the lifestyle that characterizes Emirati society, and the values and moral principles on which the people of the Emirates grew up, through the dialogues of the novel’s heroes, which embodied the image and features of that important stage in the history of the Emirates.
In his novel, the writer deliberately used the names that existed in that beautiful time, such as Zarb Al-Dabash, Al-Farij, Al-Mrayhana, Al-Saray, and other names that take us back to that beautiful time, full of kindness and simplicity, especially that intimacy and social solidarity that seems prominent in the novel. The lines of the novel, which are deservedly considered an evocation of the past in a brilliant narrative style, in which the writer depicts in words the details of social life, in the Emirates, and in Sharjah in particular.
خرائط التّيه، هي حكاية صبيِّ السبع سنوات الذي فقدته أسرته في مكّة، أثناء موسم الحج، ورِحلة البحث عنه. سرعان ما تُسفر رحلة البحث عن الطّفل، عن رحلةٍ أخرى، وبحثٍ آخر، أعمق.. عن معنى الوجود، مفهوم الإله، وعلاقاتنا ببعضنا البعض. ماذا سيحدث للأسرة التي شدّت الرحال إلى الأرض المقدّسة من أجل الحج، ثمَّ خسرت كلّ شيء؟
In “Friendship with Wittgenstein’s Nephew,” which is considered the sweetest and most humanly warm of all that Bernhard wrote, the writer talks about his relationship with Powell, the nephew of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the bonds of friendship that had united the two when the writer was being treated in a sanatorium for lung diseases. , while Powell was an inmate just steps away from him in a mental hospital.
In an endless narrative breath, the Austrian writer describes the last years of his friend's life, which also reflects part of Thomas Bernhard's autobiography, and his reflections on life and death, literature and art, reason and madness.
The little boy escapes from the midwife's hands, and all attempts to catch him fail, until Abu Muharib, a retired policeman who suffers from rheumatism, intervenes, using his old hunting experience.
The chapters of the story continue, until the moment in which the reader finds himself facing a world in which reality is mixed with its strict natural laws, and imagination soaring on the same wings that changed the course of (the little one’s) life with her presence first, and her absence next..
What wings are these where scissors, scalpels, knives and guns lurk?
Who are those howling in the background?
What fate did those living below end up with?
The novel raises many questions, then stops at this point, shirking the burden of definitive answers, and assuming that the reader will not be let down by the wings of his imagination in reaching an answer.
