The life of an expatriate is a journey of pain and happiness, loss and discovery, success and disappointment. It is a painting in which contrasting colors, very dark and very bright, clash. The life of an expatriate is a journey whose end, according to plan, is a return to the mother’s embrace, the mother who carried him and watched over him as a child, and the homeland mother that contains all his previous memories, but it often ends with the end of the expatriate before the end of the journey or with the end of the mother. This book presents stories of the life of an expatriate that are almost identical to reality, and carry within them all those emotions that we mentioned at the beginning, and it has a tendency toward presenting the condition of the expatriate without adding the usual touch of romanticism, as it is, and without exaggeration or frills.
The subconscious is a world full of life, which has no rules or pre-determined form. It is a life like a crashing wave, in which stories occur that only their owners know, and which rarely reach paper. Wading in this sea is a very complicated matter, but it is a very enjoyable matter, and the more you know, the darker it becomes, because ideas throw their impurities into it, forming in this way their opposites that disturb us whenever we sail in them.
Within a Sufi framework held by Al-Attar’s granddaughter, the events of this novel take place in the critical period that Egypt is experiencing before the emergence of the Fatimid state and in its beginnings. It depicts the social situation of the Egyptian people at that time, and the political conflicts hidden under the cloak of religion.
In “The Vision of the Eye,” Mustafa Moussa weaves two parallel stories that go side by side, and are intertwined with a third heritage story narrated by “Ablaa” over many years. Fates intersect, destinies are drawn, and the facts of a conflict that will last forever are revealed.
Russia witnessed several revolutions, unrest, and bloody civil wars at the beginning of the twentieth century, resulting in the emergence of the Soviet Union, which formed an image of the great and invincible empire.
Some saw in it the fulfillment of the red socialist dream of building a superpower whose influence extended over almost half the world. While some saw it as one of the harshest forms of oppressive totalitarian rule, with huge detention centers and a difficult economic situation.
In the year 1991, this empire collapsed rapidly after several revolutions, unrest, and bloody civil wars, and the red man woke up to suddenly find himself living in the ruins of an empire collapsing into dozens of conflicting countries, witnessing a massive economic collapse and the end of the great dreams he had lived.
In her book, Svetlana does not search for answers to the big questions that interest the reader of history, but rather for thousands of small details of past daily life by collecting dozens of testimonies from ordinary people who lived this experience and its ups and downs.
Svetlana searches for the small night conversations that disappear with the morning, for the dream of a new future, of another time. However, it is the same time repeated; Used time..
girl..
Accordion player..
Some fanatical Germans...
boxer..
Multiple thefts...
They are the heroes of a story I have kept to retell over and over again, one of many stories, each trying to prove to me that you, your human existence, are worth it.
If you have the desire to investigate the details of this story, come with death and he will tell you a story.
Unlike the rest of the men in his village, Mario decides not to spend his life as an ordinary fisherman, so he decides, using his bicycle, to work as a postman in a small village, even though it only has one person who receives and sends letters. Chile's greatest poet, Pablo Neruda.
In his exile there, the poet lives as an observer and participant in the great changes taking place in Chile, and through small meetings and discussions about love, poetry and politics, a special relationship is established between him and the young postman who is immersed in love and enchanted by Neruda’s poetry, which he sees as his right because poetry does not belong to its writer but to those who need it. .
Through charming details of the human relations in a small village between the poet steeped in politics and the postman in love steeped in poetry, Scarmeta recounts the great political changes that took place in Chile and the rise and fall of revolutionary dreams.
“Sarrah” is an immigrant in Sweden. Since the start of the war in her country, she has been unable to write. She seeks to seize the key to freedom of expression, but she faces locks. She works with an autistic child, whose father, Gibran, works in a library and fights discrimination, but he still finds himself in dark basements.
“Gibran” longs for “Sarrah,” and she longs for writing, remembering her days in Hama, and her ambition to find peace.
In this novel, Manhal Al-Sarraj tells us, in a different style of narration and writing, the story of Syrian immigrants in Sweden, their circumstances, and the fragmentation of their relationships, and quietly scatters reflections on existence, life, trust, love, and peace.
This research discusses language as a distinctive feature of a society (Syrian society), and monitors the changes that have occurred in it as the political, economic, cultural and social circumstances of this society change according to the context in which events take place, especially in light of the wave of protests that swept many countries in the Arab world in the context of what was called "Arab Spring"; The linguistic change witnessed by this society was shaped by the collective influence of those regions that witnessed these protests and is spreading thanks to the globalization of cultural communication that exists now.
In the thirties of the twentieth century, the writer Agatha Christie came from London to the city of Amuda in Syria, where she lived with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan, for a period of time, and there she wrote her diary, “Come Tell Me How You Live,” in which she narrated pictures of her adventures in life in Syria and Iraq. .
After less than a hundred years, Haitham Hussein was forced to emigrate from his small city of Amuda to Damascus and from there to multiple stops: Dubai, Beirut, Cairo, and Istanbul, all the way to London, where he wrote his biography, responding to Agatha Christus about how he lives, and in which he depicts the paradoxes of his journey to search for a safe haven. For him and his family.
Ever since the Parisian girl Marie-Laure lost her sight, she has been living her own world, either between the pages of the books her father brings her, or in the corridors of the National Museum of Natural History where he works, enchanted by the wonders of the museum and the imaginative stories she hears about its holdings, especially the mysterious jewel: the Sea of Flames. She spends her days with her father with her usual routine, until the war begins, forcing them to run away carrying a dangerous secret.
On the other side of the war, in an orphanage in a small German town, a German teenager spends his days with his little sister, fascinated by the magic of radio and its ability to transmit news and stories from distant lands. Werner pursues his obsession to become an expert in installing and repairing radios, until the war requires him to join the engineering forces in the German army.
Through their story, Anthony Dorr tells in his charming novel about the good that we may see despite the ugliness of war, and about what war does to dreamers.
The Whole Kremlin Army: A Brief History of Contemporary Russia
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It is common knowledge in Russia that all decisions are made by one person: Vladimir Putin. This is partly true. In fact, all decisions are made by Putin. But Putin is not one person. It is a great collective mind. Dozens, even hundreds of people guess every day what decisions Putin should make. Vladimir Putin himself is guessing all the time about what decisions he must make in order to be popular, to be understood and to gain the support of “the great collective Vladimir Putin.” This is a very important myth: that everything in Russia is related to Putin, that without him everything would change and that the current image of Putin - the terrible Russian Tsar - was shaped for him, often without his participation: by courtiers, foreign partners, and journalists. This collective Vladimir Putin has been praising his memories all these years, in order to prove to himself that he is right. In order to convince himself that his actions were logical, that he had a plan and a strategy, and that he had not committed mistakes, but rather he was forced to act in this way, because he was struggling with enemies and fighting a harsh and continuous war. That's why my book is a history of an imagined war. A war that must not end, otherwise we would be forced to admit that it never existed. We have all invented a Putin character that we like. Most likely, it will not be the last character.
The rise of the Third Reich, World War II, the fall of Nazism, the disintegration of Germany, the rise of East Germany, the fall of the communist states, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Terms that may pass over in history books, but they carry dozens of questions: What really happened? How did families who found themselves on opposite sides, divided between opposing ideas and warring countries, live? What does it mean to live in a country that suddenly disappears, and the enemy becomes part of the homeland?
The first thing Maxim Leo learned was to refrain from any questions, even about his family history. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he too decides to break the wall of silence in order to understand what really happened there, with his family, with his grandparents, with his parents, and with himself. To answer the most difficult question: What was so important that it made us strangers to each other even today?