In his childhood, Tammuz watched a film about the life of a young boy, and through it he was surprised at how much cinema can convey human lives and their details: “There is someone far away who lives just like me!” Since that time, he became fond of films, and their heroes became friends with whom he lived. In his youth, he traveled to Dubai, to collect money and realize his dream of studying cinema, but he became immersed in the worlds of sex and money and moved away from his dream, until the revolution and then the war broke out in Syria, when he woke up from his nightmare and realized that hundreds of films were waiting for him in his homeland to wake them from their slumber.
“Between Ropes of Water” is a novel about the love of cinema, in which Rosa Yassin Hassan combines, with a unique technique, reality with films, so that we can hardly distinguish between reality and imagination, we meet characters we loved, we read phrases we heard, and we re-draw scenes we liked...
About the book – A Date with the Sun
“A Date with the Sun” is the date that I chose one day to shine on the radio airwaves, and through it I meet loyal listeners, for whose sake I have always been keen to be present every morning, overflowing with love for this country, to present to you everything that is special and new through exceptional topics and guests, and topics that are: In fact, touch me as it touches you. We both agree on the date that the sun does not shine, and that happiness is only the beginning of optimism in every goal.
Today, the radio appointment is born again in your hands, with the release of “Appointment with the Sun”, this dream that I once wished would reach you, and I dedicate it to you, because you are the ones who deserve to re-read the beginnings of every morning, the ones that I made sure to prepare for you with love and longing, while hugging... I took the microphone with passion and from the heart, so I wrote to you a lot of love, happiness, positivity, and hope, and I researched for you a lot of studies, quotes, and the country’s achievements, to collect them today and have them in your hands, a readable copy of my voice that is “a little” far away from you, the one that you hear as you read, and most importantly, you live the moment and smile. Through a version that collected a collection of editorials for 64 episodes of the radio version.
The book “A Date with the Sun” is a reflection of the “A Date with the Sun” program, a new experience entitled “When Happiness Has a Date.”
Amal Al-Halyan