The four of us lived in a rather narrow room, with a roof that served as a filter in the winter for the rainwater received by the carefully distributed bowls and utensils. It was rented to us by an obese widow in her forties. She was a cold woman with a sharp tongue, but she did not increase the price of our rent, fortunately for us. ..
Then the fire came and consumed everything.
The objects... the rooms... the building... and even the fat Mrs. Afaf, who has a foul-mouthed tongue!
We were looking at the scene with sad faces. The firefighters, with their old equipment and their late arrival, were unable to save anything, and no one moved to help the miserable widow due to the ferocity of the fire that occurred through her negligence, as we learned later.
We gathered in the café at a small circular table to think about a solution to the problem we found ourselves in.
- “We leave...”
Siwar said it after a deafening silence, then Kahf nodded his head in support and said with a smile:
- There is no escape, there is no other solution.
While (Herbak) remained silent as usual, so I did the same. I trusted their opinion and considered him to be the decisive factor. He did not trust his personal judgments much when we were together, so his opinion was my opinion..
... هي الأرض التي تخون فيها زوجتك و تبيع فيها دولتك و تكفر فيها بربك .. ولا تبالي .. فكل قانون على هذه الأرض سقط .. و كل قناع على هذا الوجه انكسر .. ولم تعد فيها إلا سافلا .. تسير مع السافلين .. ولا تبالي
Lesson from experience: In this life, a person goes through many experiences and is exposed to great challenges so that he can gain the necessary experience to become more mature and more able to adapt and accept, and then the ability to go through more experiences and overcome difficulties. The deeper he goes into this life and the more he goes through those experiences, the more his personality and reality are created, and the more The experiences varied between positive and negative, as they had a significant impact on his reality and future, not to mention that they made him more aware in dealing with life’s givens and requirements. A lesson from experience that reviews some aspects of life and their impact on a person’s reality and future in the form of articles that came spontaneously every day with the sunshine of every morning and were collected between the covers of this book to address the reader’s mind and touch his heart...
A collection of short stories for children from 4 to 8 years old.
In it, the writer tries to work on some of the basic concepts that she wants to convey to the Arab child in an attempt to emphasize the meanings of accepting others, tolerance, working on identity, and strengthening the child’s imagination. In the story of Tala’s Braid, the writer tries to work on the meaning of patience, optimism, and resistance to illness, for resistance is what saves us. Finally, do not give in to the disease.
In the story of the dream of the black duck, we find the duck suffering from lack of acceptance and exclusion, so it tries to search for this acceptance, and finds it from others who compensate for the loss of the homeland. In the story of him flying while stealing his shadow, you also work on the meaning of acceptance and the search for friendship, emphasizing that every story has more than one point of view to look at, and the truth has other faces. The eagle that threatens the rabbit is also forced to search for food for its young, and the caution that the rabbit adhered to Save him from the claws of the eagle, and the little bird can be wiser than the eagle, and so on.
While the story of Basma and the mermaid strengthens girls’ sexual identity and works to strengthen their self-awareness so that they do not fall into the trap.
ترجمت روايتها "دنيا زاد" إلى ثماني لغات وحازت على جوائز في مصر وفرنسا. كما صدر لها كتاب يوميات بعنوان "للجنة سور" (2009) تتناول فيه تجربة السفر والهجرة بين مصر ...
