About the content of the book:
And you... you came different
To write your name on the papers of a lifetime
And to shake hands with my seasons and seasons
To build a memory of perfume on my forehead
And to give my heart a light that does not disappear with the passage of time.
So I wrote you as a title on my heart... “For your birthday.”
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وقاطعها صوت ارتطام كف يد أمها بخدها. الأم: اصمتي… فقط اصمتي. عمَّ الصمت الأجواء ولم يتبق سوى صوت شهيقهما، والدموع التي تنساب على خديهما، ورائحة الدماء.
“Honour killings” are described as “a noble name for a despicable act,” and despite the media hype surrounding this type of crime, large segments of the public lack basic information related to it, the context in which it occurs, and its true proportion within society.
Therefore, the book seeks to fill this deficiency by starting from the definition of this type of crime, linking it to the so-called “honorable motive” for the act of killing, and then moving on to shed light on the direct and indirect causes that are hidden behind them. While it also provides a detailed study of the mechanism by which Syrian law deals with this type of crime and the extenuating excuses for it, it then addresses the phenomenon of using minors to carry them out as a means of circumventing the law, the position of international law on this type of crime, and its social dangers, and ends by finally highlighting its presence in Drama, literature, and poetry.
Through this comprehensive book, lawyer and researcher Ahmed Sawan addresses the phenomenon of “murders of women under the pretext of honor” from different angles that are rarely combined in one book.
