From India's diary:
Every stage of a person’s life is beautiful if the person accepts it with its different circumstances. Some of its details remain engraved in the mind, both sweet and bitter, over the years.
Adolescence was one of the most critical stages I went through. At that time, I did not understand how everyone was dealing with me. Was I still a little girl with adult topics forbidden from me, or an older girl who had entered the world of thinkers and responsibilities?
Hind, here, is a face that reflects the aspects of life of many teenage girls in Gulf society and what ramifies this life related to relatives, friends, or other social relationships.
Having gone through adolescence one day, I can say to Hind: There must be hope that you always search for and wait for, despite all the storms you will face in your life and the stumbles in your steps. Know that hope is an inner peace that makes you smile despite the pain.
عندما يكون الصراع بين القلب والعقل. على شكل معركة يسودها الكر والفر! ومشاعر تائهة في طريق الحياة دون مواجهة يبقى الحل: أما برسالة تستقيم بها تلك المشاعر!
Hiding behind the identity of a mysterious orientalist, a young American comes to Jabal al-Arab, moves between the villages of Suwayda, and then continues his journey to Latakia. To complete the threads of a miraculous story he heard and became a party to, let us read it partly from the pages of the orientalist’s memoirs, and hear it partly from the tongues of people who lived it.
The Jabal al-Arab region continues to generate stories that tell of the harshness of life, social injustice, and the tyranny of customs and traditions that strangle the fates of heroes. But just as there are “pashas” and “maraba’un” in the mountain, there are “pashas” and “peasants” in other places. With the conflict between all of these people, falling in love becomes an adventure with unknown consequences.
In his novel, Rabih Murshid delves deeply into the oral heritage of his environment, employing its myths, songs, and poems arranged within graceful and interesting narrative templates, to tell a love story between two people riding on horseback and trying to conquer fear by singing.
