Catherine, an orphan girl, carries the stigma of her social background because she is of mixed race, in an era when society was against her and all the principles she represented. In the midst of her daily struggle, music gives her the freedom to temporarily escape and the possibility of dreaming of a better life. Within a journey ravaged by the vicissitudes of unexpected motherhood and an absent husband, Catherine strives to protect this hard-earned haven and rely on her talent to build a future for her family.
Mahsa is also an orphan girl, who grows up in an atmosphere of loss after her parents die and she is sent to live with her relatives in Pakistan. As part of her struggle to find her freedom, Mahsa flees to Montreal, leaving her first love behind. But in the end, she discovers the impossibility of cutting the threads of her past, and finally finds herself forced to accept an arranged marriage. For Mahsa, music becomes her beautiful solace, allowing her to escape from the oppressive circumstances that surround her.
In light of their struggle between the visible life and the hidden life, the two girls, music lovers, meet...
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“I can no longer remember the number of times I stood captivated by the details of the events of this poignant novel. Each page depicts hope versus despair, and asks us to struggle to achieve our dreams without which we would be lost. This story, which presents the themes of motherhood and friendship, through its two exceptional heroines, will remain... Engraved in my memory to accompany me for a long time.”
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Moving between Zabaltani, Dawaila, Saydnaya, and all the way to Istanbul, Ahmed Aswad - a tailor on a sewing machine - tells the story of his life as it appears to him, a life full of transformations and first experiences: the beginning of falling in love, traveling, and planning a murder.
In a special language that may seem neutral, but it is sarcastic and full of emotion, Wassim Al-Sharqi explores forgotten corners of the lives of a marginalized segment of Syrians before 2011, such as: smugglers on the Lebanese border, or sewing factory workers, and patrons of bodybuilding clubs and bars in old Damascus.
“Black” is a journey to delve into the motivations and drivers that direct people’s behavior and destinies, and an attempt to trace the source of the blackness that surrounds our lives and settles in our souls, difficult to disappear.
دع القلق وابدأ الحياة كتاب من تأليف الكاتب الأمريكي ديل كارنيجي، نُشر للمرة الأولى في بريطانيا عام 1948 وتتابعت طبعاتهِ وتنوعت ترجماته ليكون من أشهر وأكثر الكتب مبيعاً في العالم وقد أستغرق تأليفه 6 سنوات.
في هذا الكتاب تسلك الكاتبه آنا مارى شيمل طريقا شائكا يصعب على كثير من الكتاب الخوض فيه، وهو طريق الكتابة الروحانية أو الصوفية فى الإسلام فهو طريق مليء..
We must contemplate the secret of Homeric creativity in the epic narrative. So Homer does not care about telling only what happened in his epic “The Iliad,” but he is more interested in presenting the context of what happened and depicting the world in which this event occurred. We find events covering the universe from above Mount Olympus - the snowy sky - to the depths of the raging sea and the burning forests, and even the depths of the human soul itself in all its conditions, whether good or bad.
The events also cover gods, humans, the animal kingdom and birds. So we are dealing with a depiction of a universal existential situation, not a passing individual event. We are faced with an integrated system in which all the features and various components of living things and things interact, so that in the end we obtain a poetic exploration of the universe and its working system.
