Will people change with time? What will the struggle for power be like seven hundred years from today? Where does the humiliation come from: from the other’s enslavement of you or from your submission to the idea of being a slave? What would change in the balance of good and evil if you had the opportunity to be in the place of your enemies: live among them, and see life from their perspective?
Many questions are raised by Pierce Brown in his vision of the world of the future, which seems more cruel, but does not differ in its laws from our current world. He tells the beginning of the story of Darrow, who belongs to the red class, the lowest class of the future society painted in colors. Like the people of his class, he works every day to make the surface of Mars a habitable place for life. He goes on dreaming of a better future for his children, believing that all classes of this society, including the golden leaders; They work for this dream, but he soon discovers the betrayal to which his people were exposed, and the illusion they live for. Motivated by the pain of a lost love, he embarks on a journey of revenge in order to overthrow his enemies, in which he is not deterred even by becoming one of them.
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.
Before thirty
Before Thirty is a short text that tells the story of several people who went through different circumstances and paradoxes. Life takes a turn for heroes several times, and they go through situations they were not prepared for, and some of them are forced to make painful decisions for themselves.
