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».
. مجموعة من القصص المأساوية التي قدمها لنا المنفلوطي معًا، تفرد فيها بأسلوبه العبقري وأحاط فيها بكلِّ ما يمكن من جمال أدبٍّ وحسنِ بلاغةٍ وعفيف لفظ. ورغم ما تحمله القصص من حسن صياغةٍ في الأدب إلا أنها مأساوية بشكلٍ مذهل، تشعر فيها أن المنفلوطي يضرب أركان القلب بسياط القلم، ورغم أنك تنتقل من مأساة إلى أخرى إلا أنك لا تستطيع أن تنكر أو تخفي أن بين يديك كنزًا أدبيًا لا يبارى
It is true that the joke has its own literature and rules in funny literature, but it is also true that it has deep roots in the lives of peoples that determine its general framework. By virtue of its targeting of a people, a sect of it, or an unknown or known person within it, it takes its general and current form, crystallized from “humorous” types. “It suits the era in which it was found, and it can be said: The general context of what is funny and what makes us sad does not change, but what changes is the mechanism of receiving them.
Al-Homsi, as one of the prominent figures in contemporary humorous literature, was targeted from the beginning and labeled a fool. Indeed, Ibn al-Jawzi classified him among “the absolute fools and fools.” Accordingly, the jokes were focused on the people of Homs later. For your information, what marked the people of Homs was created by important historical events that the city experienced.
Homs has fought a humorous ideological war throughout its history. This work examines the roots of the Homs joke without entering into an analysis of the jokes told about the people of Homs, except what is necessary to point out.
Much has been written about the heroism and exploits of war, and about the extent to which it is needed as a means of achieving goals that may be considered noble. But the constant question remains: Is there a justification for peace, our happiness, and even eternal harmony, if one small tear of an innocent child is shed for it?
In World War II, more than one hundred million people were killed, wounded, and displaced in the bloodiest war - so far - in our human history. Much has been written about the tragedies and consequences of this dark phase of our history. But how did the last living witnesses see her? Children of this war?
More than thirty years after the end of that war, Svetlana, in her book The Last Witnesses, brings the remaining heroes of that stage back to their childhood that lived through the war, to tell in their words the last words... about a time that would end with them...