Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm takes the controversy and controversy raised by Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” in the late 1980s as a starting point to address what he calls “the mentality of prohibition and the logic of criminalization” among Arab thinkers, in a panoramic manner, and in other articles - added in later editions of the book - he addresses many of the issues Related issues, such as Orientalism, reverse Orientalism, concepts of cultural invasion, and authenticity. The writer dives behind the implicit meanings, trying to reach the essence, or the real motive behind the issues he discusses, and raises his voice loudly to argue and discuss the opinions of his fellow researchers and intellectuals: such as Edward Said and Adonis. The audacity makes these sober articles an important document of the discussions and dialogues that prevailed among Arab thinkers at that stage, even if one does not agree with any of them. What is important here is the celebration of free thought and debate based on diligence and knowledge.
Although the deep, passionate, and enjoyable discussions contained in this book provide many answers, they also stimulate many renewed questions that continue to trouble us and justify our need for readings of this kind.
Sweet Batush, Batoul, Turkish Comfort, Mrs. Hard Coin, different names for one woman whose trace has been lost, and finding her alive or dead has become necessary so that her family can obtain a large estate inherited by the mysterious woman; The journey to search for her becomes an opportunity to discover the secrets of the high society of which Batoul was once a part. It is a journey of ups, downs, and transformations of a woman who manipulated everyone and took revenge on them in order to avenge an injustice after she hid a mysterious secret behind her captivating laugh.
In this book, Aziz Nissin directs his harsh criticism to expose the “rot” that has befallen the velvety layers of society, and the opportunism, vulgarity, and absence of values that prevail in them, but he does so by mocking the situations and paradoxes that make men blind their eyes to what they do not want to believe, and voluntarily surrender. To the deceptions and vicissitudes of a sweet Kaptosh playful girl.
Eleven years have passed since Miguel, Alethea, and Lucas met together in one place, when they were teenage friends, and since then, as soon as a connection occurs between two of them, the ghost of the third is present, so that the roles and desires change and it is not really known which of the two young people he loved. Alethea and those who abandoned her are defeated by the other.
In this special novel, the novelist Mario Benedetti dives into the depths of the human soul, contemplating a complex love triangle between two young men and a girl, leaving space for each of them to tell the story from his point of view through diaries, letters, and the story, so that it appears as a different story every time, as if it were three rivers. A small one that eventually flows into the same lake.
