On a small rooftop in one of the neighborhoods of Homs, the Hamimati Nabih Wardan and his birds live a life parallel to what is happening around him in the city, a private, exotic, warm, and pure life, different from the harshness of the chaos, destruction, and displacement events that Homs is experiencing during March 2011. There is a curfew on the entire city, and the birds remain, for a while, enjoying the freedom to fly in a vast sky that knows no restrictions, but even this matter is about to change as soon as the hand of the “khaki-clad ones” extends its hand to the sky as well as to the earth, thus closing Nabih’s crossing to life. Another.
In the novel “The Unfamiliar Passage,” Firas Al-Maasarani explores - in a simple and direct manner - the magical world of Al-Hamimatiya, with its rituals and seductions related to everything related to birds and their breeding, but he goes further than that to take a look at the city of Homs as a whole, and its daily routine before it was swallowed up by the moment of transformation. .
The noise of the heart and mind:
The book contains 30 chapters with various topics. Each of them tells a life situation that I went through, and a number of experiences that I went through in my life, through which I learned many lessons, and I would like to pass them on to dear readers. It is a personal experience and also contains opinions on life topics. It is private to me and not public.
Each chapter has a special character, and talks about a life matter different from the other. Through it, I talked about the nature of relationships and their importance, about the human character and the rejection of cruelty and violence, about social relationships, the importance of parents in the lives of children, about love and fleeting relationships.