Amber and rosaries...the hobby of the elite: You will find, dear reader, between these pages some of the magical power that emanates from this yellow stone, weaving a garment of passion to search for the secrets hidden in amber. Your interest, dear reader, even a little, in the amber stone will be for you the beginning of an endless love. The more you enjoy it, the more you will be enchanted by its magic. You will find yourself faced with two choices: either you can be enchanted by it...or you will be enchanted by it. Talal Al-Rifai
On a small rooftop in one of the neighborhoods of Homs, the Hamimati Nabih Wardan and his birds live a life parallel to what is happening around him in the city, a private, exotic, warm, and pure life, different from the harshness of the chaos, destruction, and displacement events that Homs is experiencing during March 2011. There is a curfew on the entire city, and the birds remain, for a while, enjoying the freedom to fly in a vast sky that knows no restrictions, but even this matter is about to change as soon as the hand of the “khaki-clad ones” extends its hand to the sky as well as to the earth, thus closing Nabih’s crossing to life. Another.
In the novel “The Unfamiliar Passage,” Firas Al-Maasarani explores - in a simple and direct manner - the magical world of Al-Hamimatiya, with its rituals and seductions related to everything related to birds and their breeding, but he goes further than that to take a look at the city of Homs as a whole, and its daily routine before it was swallowed up by the moment of transformation. .
مجموعة من المقالات الاجتماعية والسياسية والدينية، حرص «المنفلوطي» من خلالها على معالجة شئون المجتمع. فعلى الصعيد الاجتماعي — الذي استأثر بالقسم الأكبر من كتاباته — دعى للإصلاح، والتهذيب الخلقي، والتحلِّي بالفضائل، والذود عن الدين والوطن، ونادى بضرورة التحرر من الخرافات والجهل والخمول والكسل. كما خصَّ المرأة بمقالتين؛ أكد فيهما على مكانتها وأهمية دورها في الحياة. وفي المجال الديني؛ رثى لبُعد المسلمين عن دينهم، وعزا ضعفهم إلى البعد عنه. كما ثار على الخرافات التي ابتدعها المسلمون؛ مثل: تقديم النذور للأولياء، وبناء الأضرحة على القبور، وغيرها من الأمور التي ما أنزل الله بها من سلطان. وسياسيًّا تحدث عن القضية المصرية ووصف حال الأمة المصرية المنقسمة آنذاك، كما أشاد بالزعيم الوطني «سعد زغلول» واصفًا إياه بأنه «منقذ الأمة».
