. أثَّرت الحضارة العربية في الحضارة الأوروبية بشكل كبير؛ حيث شمل تأثيرها جميع المجالات الروحية والمادية، فكانت أرض العرب مهدًا للرسالات السماوية الثلاث، وأيضًا حازت قصب السبق في تعليم العالم التدوين والصناعات السلمية والحربية، وعلوم الكيمياء والميكانيكا والفيزياء، كما قدمت للعالم الكثير في مجالات الطب؛ فكانت كُتب «الرازي» و«ابن سينا» هي المراجع المعتمدة لفترة طويلة بجامعات أوروبا. وامتدَّ التأثير العربي فشمل مجالات الفن والعمارة والموسيقى، كما امتدَّ إلى الأدب؛ فنجد أن القصة الأوروبية تأثرت بفنون المقامة العربية؛ لذلك يُقرر العقاد في هذا الكتاب أن أثر أوروبا الحديثة في النهضة العربية هو نوع من سداد الديون، من حضارة استفادت الكثير، إلى حضارة أنارت العالمَ وقتَ أن سادتْه الظلماتُ، مُختتمًا كتابه بالآية البليغة: «وتلك الأيام نُداولها بين الناس
Longing for the Sidra branch:
The novel was woven from the writer’s imagination and its characters are not real. It was built on real places and historical events that occurred for our Arab nation in the sixties. The novel begins when the protagonist, “Tarish,” is accused of killing his cousin, and after that he flees and leaves his village and homeland that he loved for an unknown destination, and settles in He worked in the city of Dubai and lived through the period of the rise of Arab nationalism and its victories. After that, he joined the regular school to complete his education, until he met members of a resistance movement to colonialism. He embraced revolutionary thought and engaged with them in combat operations, until he was chosen to travel and join one of the Liberation Front camps soon. From the Mahri Sultanate, but God’s will wanted him to retreat and return to the soil of the homeland, to the village, and to its people.
The ram ***
*It is as if Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a “blow of fate” that we receive, causing us to wake up from a voluntary slumber and an involuntary faint.
When we read “The Ram” by Anwar Al-Khatib; We realize that a memory that does not contain some of that man’s creations is a distorted memory. It has the right to hide in shame or become scattered in vain.
We are overwhelmed with wonder as we ask the author: What imagination sweeps through you and storms your brain when you dress up with a brush to write and even draw a novel that combines surrealism, abstraction, fantasy... and realism?!
* With captivating imagination, we rode the water with you, and we were certain that illusion is the certain truth that we practice with merit and distinction.
* The novel is a painting or a choir playing one extremely wonderful symphony, and each individual player shows his special skill on his instrument. Then the maestro comes with his stick to bring everyone together in one musical arrangement. He connects all the threads of the novel, leaving you in a state of astonishing shock, or say madness.
* Al-Khatib accompanies the animal world with its splendor and sublime “humanity.” He avoids the human world with all its meanness and brutality, and I will not say its animality.. for animals have become more sublime than us.
* Amazement, par excellence, accompanies you from the beginning of the striking and question-provoking title, even as you close the second leaf of the book, announcing the end of reading. Then you discover that your mouth is still open with astonishment and astonishment. And perhaps we will remain on that platform of astonishment until he surprises us with his new edition.
