The missing painting:
A novel that presents the difficult times the world faced during the Corona crisis. Although its characters are pure imagination, they can be projected onto reality, as it exposes many of the scenes that accompanied the Corona pandemic, and the internal and global reactions to it. As for the hero of the novel, Dr. Suhail, It is an example of hundreds of heroes who gave their lives, including medical staff, in more than one place, in the face of the pandemic.
The novel begins with Dr. Suhail, who loves drawing in addition to his professional work as a doctor. While he was drawing a painting that he wanted to participate in an art exhibition, in fulfillment of his dream of becoming a famous painter, but the Corona pandemic attacked him, as is the case with the whole world, so he rushed to his work, mobilizing to confront the Corona virus, but Fate hastened him, while he was in the midst of the confrontation with the virus, to die a martyr, and then his wife fulfilled his last wish, to be a famous artist, so she completed, with the help of his son, that painting that he had begun twenty years after his passing, while offering the price of the painting in a public auction to the needy in the name of her late husband, in appreciation and in memory of him. For his name.
Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of Al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his subsequent return to it of his own free will after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from the outside. He lived in the belly of the ghoul, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...