The collection of short stories for children, “My Beloved Emirati,” includes 12 short stories for ages ranging from 2 to 13 years
Latifa Al-Hajj was keen to choose simple words, focusing on social issues and behaviors that should be paid attention to and educate children about, such as respect for others, kindness to animals, and appreciation of the country’s flag. I also presented, through some stories, the importance of every child having an independent personality based on confidence and pride in the advantages God has given him.
This is Latifa Al-Hajj’s first experience in writing children’s literature after her story “The Pigeon Lamp” was approved in the Arabic language curriculum for the tenth grade at the Ministry of Education in the UAE.
The idea around which this book revolves is the necessity of integration between economic development and administrative reforms to achieve the goal of achieving the desired economic sustainability of the United Arab Emirates. One hand cannot clap and a building cannot be erected if one hand builds and the other holds a pickaxe and demolishes what the first hand built.
Remembering his childhood, Miguel tells of a wooden statue the size of a man, carved by a musical instrument maker before his death, so the people of Itape decided to place it at the top of the hill, so that it would become a landmark of the village. Massive events and wars take place, and the novel branches out to narrate the events of two decades of Paraguayan history, before returning to that hill with its steadfast statue, which has become very symbolic.
Rua Bastos shows history from the perspective of ordinary people, poignantly depicting their attempts to rebel against authority, revealing the brutality of the ironies of history when these people are forced to kill and die in senseless wars that they fight while standing with the very authority against which they rebel.
Using a linear sequence in narrating the events of his novel, and painting a huge mural about Paraguay, Rua Bastos writes, in a tight plot, his novel, which the great Argentine writer Borges said was one of America’s best novels...
يتناول الكتاب “فكر كرجل أعمال تصرف كمدير: خمسون نصيحة لا غنى عنها للتقدم وإستمرار نجاحك في العمل” هذه الفكرة بعمق، مُشددًا على أهمية القدرة على الاستمرار والمرونة. خصوصًا في بيئة عمل تتغير باستمرار، تصبح هذه الصفات حاسمة في تحديد نجاح الفرد. في صميم تعليمات الكتاب يوجد مفهوم احتضان التغيير بدلاً من مقاومته.
