The hero of the novel “The Philosopher’s Dance” is a controversial strategic thinker. He worked and still is an advisor to an Arab leader. He took up his job after leaving Palestine on the run after he was accused of dealing with the enemy during wartime, namely Hezbollah.
This thinker or philosopher practiced political dancing. He theorizes democracy and secularism while working for a non-democratic, non-secular leader who supports extremism. He also believes in Arab nationalism and does not recognize Palestinian nationalism. He engages in a sexual relationship with his Israeli colleague (Tzipora), then continues the matter and justifies his actions. He describes it as resistance. He claims his love for his wife, Layal, and at the same time he lives with a Moroccan woman of Jewish origin during his stay in Britain. This woman plays a major role in the novel as a visual artist and has the ability to listen and remain silent.
The philosopher moves to reside in Britain and discovers an attempt to assassinate him by a Druze soldier who was working in the Israeli army. Here the novel sheds light on the reality of the Druze, accusing them and trying to do justice to them at the same time. The credit for thwarting the assassination goes to a man from southern Lebanon who runs a restaurant in London.
The philosopher receives a letter from a deported Palestinian who took refuge in Lebanon, asking him at the end: How do you feel in your homeland? The message affects him greatly, and he searches for the answer whenever he has the opportunity, and there are many opportunities, but he fails to answer. The question forms a basic pillar of the novel as well.
Although the novel is realistic, it does not follow an ascending ladder of events, and what lies within it is much greater than the events mentioned. The novel, as much as it is a novel of events and actions, is an intellectual novel, and here lies the difficulty of talking about it.
Summary of the novel (Gypsy Female) This novel tells the story of a disabled Iraqi Christian girl whose mother died while giving birth to her. She lived under the care of a doctor father who sought the help of a colleague at work to raise his only daughter, but this woman is also kidnapped by death, so the girl lives with her father, who she mysteriously loses during the invasion of Kuwait, leaving for Baghdad at a time when Hunger and comprehensive siege, and she lives there between a close Christian couple until they die, leaving “Asmaa”, having lost her three mothers in succession. She remains alone, fighting the hell of bloody violence spreading in her Iraqi homeland until she leaves it to other homelands, as if she were a gypsy female tormented by travel as she climbed the walls of that country. Towering nations with one arm. It is the story of an Arab girl who is ravaged by the horrors of what the world is experiencing around her, but she creates life with a unique feminine ability as she moves between several homelands like a shivering bird searching for a nest that might shelter it in a forest whose tree leaves have fallen in a weeping autumn. This narrative may announce (the death of the novelist), but knowledge of this can only be determined by the reader as he follows the aesthetics of the narrative in it.
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