Longing for the Sidra branch:
The novel was woven from the writer’s imagination and its characters are not real. It was built on real places and historical events that occurred for our Arab nation in the sixties. The novel begins when the protagonist, “Tarish,” is accused of killing his cousin, and after that he flees and leaves his village and homeland that he loved for an unknown destination, and settles in He worked in the city of Dubai and lived through the period of the rise of Arab nationalism and its victories. After that, he joined the regular school to complete his education, until he met members of a resistance movement to colonialism. He embraced revolutionary thought and engaged with them in combat operations, until he was chosen to travel and join one of the Liberation Front camps soon. From the Mahri Sultanate, but God’s will wanted him to retreat and return to the soil of the homeland, to the village, and to its people.
This work consists of five independent children's stories, each of which is in a separate book. They are as follows: 1 The naughty monkey 2 The frightened rabbit 3 The birds and the snake 4 The falcon Fawaz 5 The adventurous elephant.
The idea of this work is to create new and unconventional stories, starting with the common introduction in each individual story, which respects the child’s mentality and which begins each story with (Our story, children, dear heroes, is a story from the world of imagination...), and ending with the story in terms of the idea, interesting events, and eloquent language. And the easy, appropriate and accurate word; Note that this work is not complete without illustrations of the events and characters of the story. I have added notes numbered on the pages to each of the five stories above to give the artist the desired impression for drawing the characters and events of the story, as the picture is no less than the word.
The goal of the stories supported by drawings: to attract the largest possible segment of children and parents as well to enjoy reading, and to preserve the book and reading in a generation in which technology is competing with the book, and also to address the subconscious mind of the child and broadcast good and beautiful values in the form of an entertaining story whose heroes are mostly animals. I have deliberately shed light on Some beautiful and rare animals as characters in stories to add more joy and benefit to the child.
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He was working in a sales company to support his family, which consisted of a father, mother, and sister. He worked to pay off his father’s debts that had burdened him. He is the “good son” as long as he performs his duty to the fullest extent, and any change in this is accompanied by anger, rejection, and neglect. In his workplace, which he found himself forced to live with, the state of domination and control by the chief of staff on the one hand is clearly evident, while on the other hand, it is matched by a state of subservience and submission on his part.
In fact, he has an unconscious desire to be fired from his job, but he fears for his family. From here arises a state of schizophrenia, as the two models of the cruel father and the boss represent the controlling authoritarian principle, and this is what arouses in him both submission and the spirit of rebellion.
He tried to follow the rules, to be a polite boy, to be rational as his boss described him at work... and between all these honest attempts, we find him completely losing himself, and he began to experience a surprising existential crisis!
Here he wakes up from his nightmares one day to find himself transformed into a disgusting “insect”!!
At first glance, he thought he was still dreaming, and amid the chaos and unreasonableness of the events, he needed conclusive evidence to confirm to him the veracity of the event, and this is what he got when he found his family shocked and terrified by the horror of the event. Then he realized the reality of the event and exclaimed, saying: “No, it is not a dream.” .
