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.
Love is the most dangerous and mysterious emotion. The most dangerous of these is because the lover often loses the ability to appreciate reality. Nothing makes him ready for death as love does. How many men lost their lives to reach their loved ones, and how many women defied their societies and were killed for a moment of connection with their beloved. History and literature tell us about many love stories that ended in death or madness. Because love is a powerful emotion that pushes the sails of the heart into the gates of an adventure with choppy waves. It does not value any danger, and it never accepts submission to mental trials.
As for the ambiguity of this emotion, it comes from ignorance of its causes. Most of the time, we do not fully know what we love about the person we love, and we often discover in him the opposite of what we thought when we loved him. Love - despite its arrogance - remains the most fragile of emotions, and often dissipates when it comes into contact with reality. Just as it blows like a storm, it can suddenly calm down, leaving... The air behind him was filled with dust.
Despite everything, love remains the most beautiful feelings that a person can possess, and the moments of connection that often precede a tragic end for lovers may be the happiest moments they live.
