Language and Politics: Essays on Criticism, War, and the Left
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These Orwell essays are written with a direct and frank practical breath. They are not purely intellectual or academic articles. Quite the contrary, Orwell wants the reader to engage in intellectual, and therefore political, battles - as he does not distinguish between the two matters. On the other hand, the articles are very entertaining, smart, and mean. Journalistic writing, for Orwell, is a special literary project. Orwell makes the art of the essay a renewed field for discovering the meaning of writing, and his articles are taught in English universities and institutes as a model of serious, literary, profound, and artistic writing.
“Amazing is a hidden treasure in Aleppo,” says one of the novel’s heroines. In her work, Maha Hassan tries to bring this amazement through writing and memories to re-draw Aleppo and its ancient popular neighborhoods, its rituals of living, the simplicity of its people, and their small dreams, before the war comes and destroys all of this in its path.
Relying on a unique technique inspired by the names of Arab and international novels and the titles of the chapters, the heroes of “The Amazing Neighborhood” tell us their story from “Zarqa’s Imagination” and “Beirut Nightmares” to the house of “Sleeping Beauties.”
It is a story about love, childhood memories, intentional killing, the emotional placenta, and the role of literature in our lives
"أين يُمكِن لرجل وامرأة أن يتصادفا؟ على حدود متراخية، أو في مروج مترامية، مقعد دراسة أو طاولة عمل، ميدان أو زقاق، حفل أو عزاء، في طائرة أو حافلة. أمَّا إن كان أحدهما كاتبًا؛ تتلعثم الأبجدية، وتنفتح أبواب عوالم سحرية، فيلتقيان في أكثر الأماكن غرابةً، وأشدها مهابةً، مثلًا: في البلد الذي يَمنع النُّطق بالحا
