"كم هو عُمرك يا إبراهيم؟هِجرات ثلاث..وسنوات ممتلِئَة بالتَّضحيات..وبناء بيتٍ لله..ومشاهد لا تُحصى من مواقف الثَّبات!بهذا تُقاسُ الأعمارُ يا سيِّدي..بعُمقِها وليس بطُولِها!ورُبَّ عُمر اتَّسعت آماده، وكثُرت أمداده، وأمطرت غيماته إلى قيام الساعة!يا إبراهيم.. رَفَعْتَ بيتًا لله، فَرَفَعَ اللهُ لك ذِكرَكَ، ورفَعَ مَقامك
You do not have to be a student of philosophy or metaphysics, nor be interested in them, to read this book. The famous Spanish philosopher simply and deeply delve into a series of ideas closely related to our daily lives, and from there he sets out to explain metaphysics and our need or lack thereof. “For metaphysics itself is nothing but what man does. What you and I do in our lives
In conclusion, this life is something prior, and it comes before everything that metaphysics will reveal to us.
In these lectures, which he delivered to his students in a regular semester, every reader will find an introduction to understanding the world and understanding himself, and everyone interested in philosophy will find a rich engagement with two main trends in the history of philosophy: realism and idealism.
"Sophie Perrin" is a French woman who is fond of speed and hates stability. Her sadness is sudden but authentic, her desires are sudden but stem from existential anxiety, and her questions are many but they hide deep wounds.
And Hanifa Kamal, the stubborn Kurdish girl, lived a miserable childhood in Aleppo, which ended in painful torture when her father was forced to choose between two wives, and the decision was to divorce her mother and move them away to a distant village.
There is an “umbilical cord” connecting the two, which will only be revealed with “Paola,” who decides to travel from Paris to Aleppo.
In her novel, Maha Hassan takes us to the world of the Kurds in Syria, with all its rituals, customs and traditions, highlighting their suffering in a country in which they live, but which is cruel to them. It moves between two cultures: the West and the East, and in doing so it raises the question of identity, its true component, and the question of belonging and its meaning.