In a time when speech has no value, Younes decided to remain silent.
What is the benefit of what he says when he is weak, strange, and free from the constraints of twenty-six years that he spent in a world of fear, loneliness, and near death?!!
Wherever he went and wherever he moved, he was pursued by curses and oppression. Even his attempts to search for a part of his precious past with his wife and son were useless...!
In his relationship with “Abu Al-Rish,” he felt some reassurance from all the alienation that nestled in his heart, but that was not enough for him to find stability and end his torment and loneliness!!
The new circumstances of the country, and the changes in the government, increase his flight and confusion, despite his attachment to all the good people who surrounded him during his ordeal.
“Younes” who longed for everything... nothing saved him!!
Leaving the herd:
A book about awareness and improving the quality of life, through returning to oneself, and respecting the human right to determine his true choices and preferences, and what he likes and dislikes... without coercion, and without having to go along with others in their convictions... The book consists of a set of brief lessons in thought, morals, emotion, and relationships. It is written in a smooth language, suitable for all ages. The book is considered an extension of a group of books that the writer has previously published in recent years, including Al-Comedino, Al-Dongguan, The Camel Café, and Al-Marakibi.
How could she find boldness, ardor, detachment, and greatness in her? These qualities only appear when a freedom throws itself into an open future, emerging beyond every given thing. We lock a woman in a kitchen or a bedroom, and we are surprised that her horizon is limited. We cut its wings, and we are sorry that it does not know how to fly. Let us open up the future to her, and she will no longer have to stay in the present.
We show the same contradiction when we imprison her within the confines of her ego, or her home, and blame her for her narcissism, her selfishness, and what accompanies them: such as vanity, crankiness, evil...etc. We strip her of all possibility of tangible communication with others, so that in her experience she does not feel the call of solidarity, nor its benefits, since she is completely devoted to her family, and isolated; Thus, we cannot expect it to transcend itself towards the common good. She stubbornly stays in the only field she is familiar with; Where you can exert influence over things, and within it you find fleeting sovereignty.
A brief biography of Darkness:
A novel in which the Sudanese novelist Amir Taj Al-Sir talks about a person by profession (a blacksmith) who became a Minister of Culture and how his life changed from a simple person to a minister. He also recounts the important events that he witnessed in many interesting and funny anecdotes and situations.
