إلى أفضل أب على الإطلاق بقلم تيم فينتون ... لا شيء يمكن أن يعدك تماماً لما تعنيه كلمة أبوة. هل تذكر عندما حملت طفلك بين ذراعيك للمرة الأولى وسألت نفسك: "ماذا سيحدث بعدئذ؟". لا يوجد دليل أو تطبيق معين يمكنك من خوض رحلة الأبوة. إنها رحلة عاطفية لا يمكن التنبؤ بها. تتخللها ضحكات ودموع، وأوقات مليئة بالمرح والمواقف المضحكة وغير المتوقعة، وبلحظات عزيزة ستحملها في قلبك إلى الأبد.
The two brothers, Helmy and Diaa, work in a car repair shop, while their mother works as a dancer in a nightclub.
Every day, when she goes out to work, one of the brothers disguises herself in her clothes to imitate her, and exercises the same dominance over the other with which she treats them.
In a theatrical text based on the play “The Maids” by the French writer Jean Genet, and taking place in the poor post-war neighborhoods of Damascus, Zain Saleh raises the questions that an entire generation suffers from about power, family, asylum, and gender.
Novel: Where did you lose your hearts?
They were sitting at the dining table eating lunch.
The brothers were arguing about something, and nothing stopped them except the mother’s crying and the father’s shock. The brother stood up to find out what had happened and was shocked as well. The sisters did not realize what had happened to them...what might put the shock on their faces. They only knew one thing, which was that death was coming.
That day came when the father, who works in the most honorable profession of protecting the homeland, would leave. He was going to the battlefield!
Days passed and nothing had happened yet.. They thought that what was published were just rumours, until one day they felt an earthquake, an earthquake that was neither strong nor weak. From that moment they knew that their country had begun to collapse.. They knew that they had reached the end, or to be more precise, they had not reached the end. It was only the beginning, the beginning of the war and the beginning of the pain.
From that moment, the family began to struggle with death...to struggle with pain...the pain of loss...the loss of the self, the loss of the father, and the greatest loss was the loss of the homeland! The homeland that sheltered and protected them...so how could they lose the place where they made their memories?
ل من الممكن أن تعشق الأرض مغتصبها يوماً؟ هل من الممكن أن تنهض الأرواح من تحت الركام، معلنة أنها تحب من سلبها حقها يوماً؟ هل هذا هو الحبّ الذي حلمت به "جوليا" بطلة، رنا اليسير وأحمد اليسير في رواية لَستُ قدّيسة وهي صغيرة، ومزقها وهي عروس ليلة خطبتها، وأحياها وهي مبعوثة سلام فوق هاوية الموت؟
