About the book (In Stories of Peoples)
The book (On Peoples’ Stories) aimed to focus on popular literature in general, and the popular tale in particular, because of its close connection to the literature of the nation and society itself, and a representation of people’s lives and their victories over the pressures of life, and their attempts to achieve their hopes and ambitions through it.
The book includes twenty-five diverse articles in the same field. Each article specializes in a special topic of folk literature or the folk tale and studies it in some detail, such as talking about the narrator of the folk tale and its recipients, and some of its characters who are considered the backbone of every folk tale, such as the princess, the hero, the aggressor, or The evil one, as well as diving into the kingdoms of the jinn and mixing them with the worlds of humans.
A collection of short stories for children from 4 to 8 years old.
In it, the writer tries to work on some of the basic concepts that she wants to convey to the Arab child in an attempt to emphasize the meanings of accepting others, tolerance, working on identity, and strengthening the child’s imagination. In the story of Tala’s Braid, the writer tries to work on the meaning of patience, optimism, and resistance to illness, for resistance is what saves us. Finally, do not give in to the disease.
In the story of the dream of the black duck, we find the duck suffering from lack of acceptance and exclusion, so it tries to search for this acceptance, and finds it from others who compensate for the loss of the homeland. In the story of him flying while stealing his shadow, you also work on the meaning of acceptance and the search for friendship, emphasizing that every story has more than one point of view to look at, and the truth has other faces. The eagle that threatens the rabbit is also forced to search for food for its young, and the caution that the rabbit adhered to Save him from the claws of the eagle, and the little bird can be wiser than the eagle, and so on.
While the story of Basma and the mermaid strengthens girls’ sexual identity and works to strengthen their self-awareness so that they do not fall into the trap.
Between heart and mind:
It is a novel that tells the experience of a failed love, which was ultimately a lesson for its owner. Ahmed lived his entire life under the robes of his conservative family, and spent many years dreaming of marrying his cousin Hessa, whose love had grown in his heart since their childhood. He was a passionate lover, but his family’s financial conditions were difficult. And conservative traditions surrounded him from every side like a bracelet surrounds the wrist, and despite his sincere love for Hessa, who shyly exchanged his feelings of love for him, he was unable to unleash her feminine feelings in his lover, who fell in love with a chaotic man with a strong personality to the point of indifference, and when She leaves him and moves on, leaving him heartbroken and desperate, suffering from depression, from which he cannot recover except when he takes revenge on the man who loved her for a man from whom that shock made another human being, after she taught him the lesson of his life.