I almost claim that the art of autobiography in Arabic literature has been greatly wronged by its writers, who have taken it out of the framework of history, documentation, and written confession, into the space of beautifying the writing selves, improving faded images, and even inventing fake histories that rely on ignorance of the
The poet, critic and artist Mohamed Okasha faces our creative life with more than one mask. We can describe these masks accurately when we read his poetic and prose texts, follow his critical analyses, or stand before his sculptural works.
How to Raise a Cloud, Book Cover
If we praise words by describing them as painted with
We follow the swing that the narrator took in “Bitter Orange” by the Lebanese writer Basma ElKhatib (Dar Al-Adab) as a deceptive, rotating place from which she appears to tell, between a backward jolt that overlooks a past in which the most painful thing is, and the most beautiful thing in it is almost absent, and a forward jolt
In spite of great advances into the material world, men have not learnt the essential arts of living
If we compare a growing plant and a growing child, we will understand what the difference between men and nature is.
A plant when grows up, gathers a lot in its stem, and from here, it forms the grain, which is not meant for its own
Family is the ruling unit of the society. In the family, man and woman are often seen fighting. They do not find compatibility and sometimes think of killing the other partner, or even getting rid of him or her
POINTS TO PONDER
A partner who does not agree is better than a neighbour who agrees with you. For, that amounts to
