In the introduction to his first collection of short stories, the Chinese storyteller Lu Xun says that he found himself driven to write because he felt intense loneliness. He was not able to forget, or, rather, he was not able to forget completely; So, he wrote stories about the past.
This is exactly what prompted me to write: overwhelming loneliness. I also failed to forget, so I wrote what remained in my memory about Syria before the war.
Sometimes, exiles write about nostalgia for a country they miss and wish to return to. This is not like the nostalgia of Syrians: the country has completely changed, and even disappeared. We long for a place that does not exist, except in memory. And memory, as you know, writhes, colors, and churns. I am no exception, and my memory does not claim to be completely faithful to reality, but I tried hard to write exactly what you dictated to me.
Hopes, dreams, and losses are all fading quickly, and so is the country, and what remains of it is in us: as if it were a half-smile, or a summer cloud, or a bright comet passing quickly, only to disappear completely moments later, before the eyes of curious, bored viewers, indifferent to its fate...
Life in 20 Pages by Amb. Dr. Abdulsalam AlMadani is a book that simplifies life, helps you understand people, and encourages you to have a positive attitude and high spirit despite all your hardships. The book highlights events and incidents in your daily life and teaches you how to deal with them with ease. It helps you solve your problems, achieve your aspirations, and articulate your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
Lifelong experiences are put in quotes to make it easy for people to understand life. The more you dig in, the more you realize that your biggest problems could have been solved if you changed your approach.
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In this novel, “Sabwat Yassin,” we will see the fictional character of the intellectual divided into two characters, the character that the state created, fabricated, and presented as its true self. The original character who escaped from this dark fate went to the home of the religious people from whom he had tried to escape, and then to the community of the Non-Qabalan, a tribe seeking peace who had no dream except to escape from the Qabalan, the sons of Cain, the eternal killer.
Yassin escapes and flees, but the state is bigger, and we will read in the novel: “He looked again in the mirror... The face is a real Yassin, there is no doubt, no doubt, no worry about it. But what about this large number of Yassins in the mirrors, Yasin the face, Yasin the back, Yasin the right? Yassin on the left, Yassin al-Qadhali in front, and Yassin al-Yami on the left.”
Sabwat Yassin is an image of an intellectual torn between the dream of a universal culture and an oppressed society
