Hands were tainted and corruption prevailed in the apple box I staked on. Rot spread and expanded after worms infested it. Our era lost its purity and now it flaunts its victories and imposes its dominance. It shed my blood and displaced my children. I lost my initial innocence in front of their eyes. They distanced from me gradually until my
A Review of the Short Story Collection "Land Trapped" by the Libyan Writer Omar Al-Kikli.
The binary of the writer and the text is no longer the sole concern of literary criticism. Instead, the receiver, or the reader, has been added as a crucial element, thus forming a new binary: the reader and the text.
Reception
The celebration of Saudi National Day invokes connections and intricate relations between past, present, and a shared future. These connections span heritage, trade, construction, innovation, creativity, coordination, and shared visions, as well as cooperation and openness to the world at large. Love, prosperity, and optimism for the future
Do you know "Fahim the tailor"? Of course not. Nobody around him knows this name even though it's his official name on documents. But when you mention "Wad Jeddah", distances and explanatory phrases become succinct. This title, which once was a mark of mockery and bullying, became unique to him.
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Critic Mahmoud Abdel Shakoor says in his book "How to Watch a Movie", that dialogue in itself is a difficult art complementing the art of cinema, pointing out that Egyptian cinema in its golden age relied on giants specialized in dialogue, such as El Sayed Bedeir, Abul El-Saud El Ebiary, and Badee' Khairy, who were assigned to
