Are you filming a play that you can see with the camera? By the Syrian playwright Muhammad Al-Attar, the story of a director filming a film in which she records the testimonies and experiences of young people detained in prisons months after the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, and she suffers a conflict between her convictions and her belonging to a family close to the regime.
Trying to finally reconcile with a past that has been haunting her throughout her life, Coco tells the story of her family across several generations, starting with the ancestor, Albert Louis, an ambitious man who left his land trying to recreate himself as a man with wealth, passing through his children and grandchildren, and ending with her herself: Coco,” the narrator feels she must tell this tale, and it will be the monument she builds to the dead. It is the debt that must be repaid. A story devoid of great executioners and venerable martyrs, but it will nonetheless have the weight of flesh and blood, because it is the story of its people, of their dreams and hopes, of their delusions, of their failures, and of their complex legacy from which the entire race suffers.
“The Sinful Life” is a novel overflowing with interwoven stories and full of details that provide important testimony about the lives of middle-class families in the Caribbean. It was written by Maryse Conde, the Guadeloupe novelist who won the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018, with infinite sweetness and warmth, based largely on the history of... Her own family. She wrote it as a monument to build for the dead, thus paying off her debt as well.
هناك سؤال في انتظارك بالورقة الأولى من هذا الكتاب، ثم بعد انتهائك من القراءة، ينتظرك سؤال ثانٍ بالورقة الأخيرة”. فضلًا لا تقرأ السؤال بالورقة الأخيرة دون
About the book
The book talks, at the beginning, about the roots of the establishment of the Emirate of Qatar since it was subordinate to the Bani Khalid who ruled Al-Ahsa, and after him, Sheikh Muhammad Al Khalifa’s settlement in Al-Zubara and its fortification, before the conquest of Bahrain, and Qatar’s continued subordination to Bahrain, and the process of the British separation of Qatar from Bahraini rule, and so on. This was followed by the stages of dependency that Qatar entered into, from dependency to Saudi Arabia and entering under Ottoman and then British rule, and it talks about the Al Thani family, the roots of their presence in Qatar, and the role of the Al Thani in collecting zakat and delivering it to the ruler of Bahrain,,
The book talks about Qatari independence from Britain, the coup process that became an alternative to the process of peaceful transfer of power, the political mentality of Qatar’s rulers affected by historical accumulations and the complex of geographical space, and the personality of Hamad bin Khalifa, who is governed by the psychological complex of his emirate’s position on the regional and international political map. And about his efforts to search for regional leadership, the goal of establishing Al Jazeera and establishing the American base, and the failure of Hamad bin Khalifa’s efforts to expand the geographical map of his emirate,,
The book also talks about the relationship between the Qatari regime and the Qatari people, and the regime’s efforts to change the demographic composition in Qatar, and the policy of replacing one people with another, and turning the Qatari people into a minority. The book moves on to the relationship of the Qatari regime with its Gulf and Arab surroundings, and then Doha’s regional and international relations, and the attempts Hamad bin Khalifa in limiting the Saudi and Egyptian role and trying to build a regional role for Doha, relying on financial diplomacy,,
The book also talks about the beginning of the roots of the relationship between Qatar and terrorist organizations (Al-Qaeda and after it the Brotherhood), and about the role of Qatar, Al Jazeera, and the Brotherhood centers in the project of creative chaos and regime change, and about the role of Doha in creating terrorist organizations in Syria and Libya, and supporting terrorism in Egypt, and about the plans. The Qatari conspiracy against Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Bahrain, and in conclusion, the book talks about the crises of 2014 and 2017, and about Doha’s scenarios in light of the quadrilateral boycott it is experiencing, and the dangers of bringing in Iranian and Turkish forces, against the Emirate of Qatar and the Qatari regime,,
