It is said: “Writing theater is, in a way, knowing how to tell our story.” But the past ten years have undermined the axioms. Instead of asking how, we began to ask: Why do we talk, and about what? Thus, these four texts come today to answer these questions in their own way, and carry the concerns of their writers “here and now.”
A text depicting the city as he sees it: two elderly people guarding public toilets on a street in Damascus; Where stories seep out from under dirty bathroom doors, another about a young man who spends most of his time in the kitchen, unable to work and interact with others, and instead tries in vain to stop the water dripping from the tap so as not to drown him, and a third text about a faltering relationship between a Syrian young man residing inside... A Syrian woman residing in Germany. As the two try to maintain the connection that unites them in the face of the difficult circumstances of their lives, a final text sheds light on the mentality that prevails among Syrian artists in “Despora,” and affects their work mechanisms and their relationship with cultural institutions, by shedding light on the rehearsals of a theater group preparing for the play “The Return of Danton.” With projections on the Syrian situation.
Taken together, the texts of this workshop form an image that resembles its spaces with the questions of these spaces, or with the absence of questions, with the blurring or dominance of memory, with confusion, with boldness, with violence, and with death. Stage masters.
Christian women's rights in the Arab Levant countries
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This book directs a harsh criticism of the legislative and political system of the countries of the Arab Levant, which violates international human rights instruments, which affects - in particular - the rights of women, especially non-Muslim women who are subject to discrimination on the basis of gender and religion.
Through a detailed legal study, Dr. Nael Girgis, the Christian influence of the social and legal system on the rights of Christian women, and the Islamic influence on their rights as well, sheds light on many of the issues that detract from those rights, including: depriving her of inheritance, custody of her children, granting her citizenship to them, and obligating her to obey and submit to men. Who has priority in guardianship over the children. The study is also distinguished by its comparison of the legal situation of Christian women in several Levantine countries, highlighting the contradiction with the International Bill of Human Rights.
Thus, the book in our hands is an in-depth legal research that reveals the injustices that befall Eastern women in general, and women who profess or follow Christianity in particular, which guides us to aspects of legislative reform to contribute to building states of law and citizenship that treat their citizens on an equal footing.
The term “women’s empowerment” has invaded the research literature and reports issued by civil society organizations in the Arab region, without sufficient introduction to this term, its dimensions, indicators, and methods for measuring it, especially in view of the geographical and cultural specificities, and the different historical circumstances of women from one country to another: the empowerment of women in... Belgium, or Ecuador is not the same as empowering them in Syria.
This is precisely what justifies the interest in publishing the “Methodological Guide to Women’s Empowerment,” prepared by the work team in the “Gender and its Indicators” project, managed by the Women and Development Committee of the General Department of Cooperative Development (DGCD) in Belgium.
Instead of adopting a fixed template that applies to all women, this guide takes into account the cultural specificities of each society and proposes a flexible methodology that allows for the formulation of empowerment indicators.
Empowerment, according to the words of the authors of this guide: “is not based on a process of horizontal development, or fixed values in society, but rather a cumulative process built on the activities of women’s movements, as well as mixed movements.”
Thus, this guide explores the relationship of the concept of empowerment to other related terms, such as: power, distribution of responsibilities, and building identity.
“Honour killings” are described as “a noble name for a despicable act,” and despite the media hype surrounding this type of crime, large segments of the public lack basic information related to it, the context in which it occurs, and its true proportion within society.
Therefore, the book seeks to fill this deficiency by starting from the definition of this type of crime, linking it to the so-called “honorable motive” for the act of killing, and then moving on to shed light on the direct and indirect causes that are hidden behind them. While it also provides a detailed study of the mechanism by which Syrian law deals with this type of crime and the extenuating excuses for it, it then addresses the phenomenon of using minors to carry them out as a means of circumventing the law, the position of international law on this type of crime, and its social dangers, and ends by finally highlighting its presence in Drama, literature, and poetry.
Through this comprehensive book, lawyer and researcher Ahmed Sawan addresses the phenomenon of “murders of women under the pretext of honor” from different angles that are rarely combined in one book.
Burdened with noble goals, five young Frenchmen embark on a journey to deliver humanitarian aid to the Kakani region in Bosnia, during the period of civil war, but what began as a dangerous humanitarian mission on a bumpy road in the snow and cold, took a different path that made all their assumptions subject to question and skepticism. What's really in the boxes? Where are they going? What awaits them there on the other end? In addition to having to cross real checkpoints, they will also face more difficult intellectual barriers. What do the victims really need: survival or victory? What must be found: the animal survival instinct that requires only food and housing, or the human sense of dignity that requires means of resistance?
In an interesting and well-paced plot, the French writer Jean-Christophe Ruffin raises very profound questions about humanitarian work: its feasibility, its motives, and how to be truly humanitarian to the fullest extent. These are questions that the novel's characters keep asking themselves, and to each other, throughout a dangerous journey that may change their convictions, and perhaps their destinies, forever.
Another postman from Scarmita, but this time he was found in Nicaragua; To be a witness to the last weeks that paved the way for the fall of “Somutha,” the last dictator of Nicaragua. In those decisive moments, the residents of the city of Leon are divided between a majority supportive of the rebels led by Augusto Cesar Sandino, and a minority loyal to the regime and its soldiers. Among them, Scarmita creates a special magical world. The postman decides Letters carrying news of death are better not to arrive, and the oldest woman in the city pretends to be an old widow. To cover up her political activity, the beautiful Vicki shouts in the face of the military, and with them we see the priest, the barber, and others, inventing their own “Trojan horse” to make the rebellion successful and take control of the city.
Through a text that has multiple rhythms and narrative styles, and is full of metaphors, Scarmetta shows how a single event can differ in its impact and meaning depending on the angle from which it is viewed. For some, loss and defeat become a victory and an unforgettable moment for others.
In this work, Scarmeta carries the concerns of Nicaragua; Because for him, the struggle against dictatorships is the same regardless of place.
The best way to understand Bakunin suggests looking at what he wrote, and what he did, as part of a libertarian movement within the socialist movement and thought, and the main disagreement between him and Marx centered around the concept of authority and freedom. Regarding this point, Bakunin presented a set of ideas: on organization and revolution, and human nature, Criticism of the concepts of the social contract, the state, democracy, and elections; Marxism and liberalism are interconnected, intertwined, and transcend - in an amazing way - both; This is Bakunin's main intellectual contribution. Bakunin believes that all authorities are illegitimate, and that freedom is the main condition for human development. Before we present the details of his vision, we must clarify that Bakunin did not reject all authorities absolutely, and that anarchism is not chaos. Anarchism was subjected to a ruthless campaign to distort it, led by its companions: Marxists first, then liberals, and of course those with traditional authority, but it is an unjust campaign. In fact, Bakunin distinguishes between authority that does not emanate from below, but is imposed on people, and authority that consists of Below, in an organic and natural way, and it exercises its influence within specific and temporary limits.
Using diminutive names, such as: “Soso” or “Koba,” Arrabal addresses the leader Joseph Stalin through a long, sarcastic and indignant message, dropping from him the qualities of greatness and deification, so that he returns to a child who deserves rebuke.
Employing his huge and diverse intellectual reserve, Arrabal delves into the details of Stalin’s life, starting from his famous mustache, passing through the women in his life, the spies and henchmen who worked for him, and the poets who immortalized him in weak verses, all the way to his victims, who were many, inside and outside the Soviet Union, and with Therefore, Arrabal does not reveal the sources of his information, nor does he differentiate between facts and fabricated details. He does not seek to present a truly historical document as much as he is interested in formulating a dialectical and moral argument.
Unlike his letter to General Franco, which he sent to the latter while he was alive, writing to a dead dictator may seem like an absurd and useless act, but Arrabal is in fact directing his letter to the living who lived with Stalin, or were influenced by him later, and he is trying in his letter, which seems Closer to a plea in a court; To say: History is unforgettable and cannot be erased.
Hiding behind the identity of a mysterious orientalist, a young American comes to Jabal al-Arab, moves between the villages of Suwayda, and then continues his journey to Latakia. To complete the threads of a miraculous story he heard and became a party to, let us read it partly from the pages of the orientalist’s memoirs, and hear it partly from the tongues of people who lived it.
The Jabal al-Arab region continues to generate stories that tell of the harshness of life, social injustice, and the tyranny of customs and traditions that strangle the fates of heroes. But just as there are “pashas” and “maraba’un” in the mountain, there are “pashas” and “peasants” in other places. With the conflict between all of these people, falling in love becomes an adventure with unknown consequences.
In his novel, Rabih Murshid delves deeply into the oral heritage of his environment, employing its myths, songs, and poems arranged within graceful and interesting narrative templates, to tell a love story between two people riding on horseback and trying to conquer fear by singing.
Rabbits emerge from jacket sleeves, a car fixes a shed instead of a pole, and medical cotton speaks and makes sounds; These are some of the daily observations mixed with audio-visual hallucinations, narrated by a young drug addict, through a group of separate, connected short stories that describe the image of a world in which wakefulness and sleep are mixed, and reality and imagination.
In these stories, everything moves slowly, and the world is seen through a blur; As for death, it seems like a joke, even the feelings become numb; So that one laughs when one should cry.
Without lacking a sense of humor and bitter banter, Dennis Johnson presents in this collection an honest testimony about the lives of young addicts in the United States of America, and despite all the laughter and smiles generated by the book’s funny characters with their jokes and behavior, perhaps the reader will wonder at the end: Why does he feel this way? All sadness? It is a book written in the mouth of addicts, not about them, and describes their alienation and their connection with the world that is gradually fading.
Ingrid Barøy was born on a small island off the northwestern coast of Norway, an island inhabited by only one family, living out their ambitions and dreams that collide with the boundaries of the land and the weather, and the mercy of the sea, which provides a living, but also brings death.
Father Hans dreams of building a pier connecting them to the mainland, but contact with the outside world comes at a price, which Ingrid will know fully after she grows up and goes to work there for a wealthy family and take care of her two children. With the couple disappearing one day, she finds no choice but to return to her home with the two children, and thus the island’s population increases in number, and a different life begins, especially as Norway awakens to a wider world, a modern world that is volatile and can be cruel.
“The Invisibles” is a profound interrogation of freedom and destiny, written with delicate narration and brief, simple, calm sentences tinged with poetic tensions, creating a painting of natural cinema that makes the “invisible” clearly visible.
Felipe sees bodies in every corner of Santiago, and seeks to match their numbers with the official death toll, arriving at a perfect number with no survivors. As for "Iquila" and "Paloma", they share the memory of a mysterious and cloudy childhood meeting, and a friendship that linked the parents of one of them with the parents of the other, in the past.
The three embark on an unexpected journey to recover the body of Paloma's mother, after she was stuck in Argentina due to volcanic ash.
Through a different and new narrative, Alia Trabuco Theran, in her novel that was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, tells us about the past that has not passed, about the dark family legacy of the children of those who lived under the Pinochet dictatorship, and about confronting the pain that extends across generations.
After the enthusiastic revolutionaries attacked Hoshanak's house and burned musical instruments, books, and all the things they considered forbidden, he decided to leave Tehran, taking his wife, Rosa, his two sons, Sohrab and Beta, and the third daughter, Bahar, to settle in a distant village, hoping Preserving their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the chaos of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution sweeping the country.
The fates of all family members change, and they are divided between pain and memory, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the times, events, and narrative spaces that “Bahar” narrates intersect, mixing violence and brutality with mysticism, meditation, magic, and myths, invoking oral narrative traditions to confront cruelty with the power of imagination.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, Green Plum Tree's Rise is a fascinating journey through Persian history and mythology, woven in the style of magical realism, exploring the fate of hope and dream in Iran today.
Peralbo plays jazz in Lady Bird, where Lucrezia heard him and became passionate about his music, and he fell in love with its mystery.
After a long time, the narrator meets that musician “Peralbo” again, but now he takes the name “Giacomo Dolphin” and lives a different life. What happened during these years? Why did he change his name? What is the story of the stolen painting? Is the title of the song “Lisbon,” which is repeated over and over again, the key to the mysterious past?
In the humid rainy streets, in night bars drowned in smoke, and in nights filled with blue and pink lights, and to the rhythm of jazz music, the novel’s heroes strive to understand love, music, and the secret of a city from which there is no point in escaping, because it will follow them to the ends of the world.
In this novel, which won the National Prize for Literature and the Critics' Prize in Spain, Antonio Muñoz Molina writes, with a graceful detective plot, a love poem in love with music.
At the Carnival in Venice, a wealthy Mexican meets a person disguised as the last Aztec king of Mexico: Montezuma, who was killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. He also meets three European musical geniuses who filled the history of music with their immortal works: the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi, the Neapolitan Scarlatti, and the English-German. Handel. Did he go back to the eighteenth century? Or did they advance to the twentieth century?
In this masterpiece, there is a mixture of truth and fiction, a jump between dates, a mixing of characters and roles, falsification of facts, and skepticism of history, all brought together by Alejo Carpentier within a Baroque concerto in which European music meets African rhythms, and you can imagine the music that resonates within the lines. And the voices that get louder, and the breaths that stop...
