“The blue and the Hoopoe” Love on Facebook - Jahida Wehbe

We might happen to love in different ways and the history of love has witnessed a thousand ways to love. But to love with such amazement a world so different from ours… this was never told by the most beautiful novels and love stories…

This is How Shehrazad Was Killed - Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad is angry. She is outraged at the way Arab woman is depicted across western societies. In this book, Joumana challenges the prevailing concepts on woman’s identity and reality in the Middle East. She talks about the woman’s personal intellectual growth and the liberating impact of literature on her life. This book is a provocative, heated and outspoken attempt to explore in depth what it means to be an Arab woman today.

Omr (age) - Rania Salwan

This book is about the deep confessions of the female which goes beyond the conventional writing style in terms of form and content. It is close to the female memory and historic documentation of the emotionally confused relationship between man and woman where “I” the poet plays the starring role. The author says: “each one of us has something inside which he/she reveals as time goes by. “Omr” is a phase of my age in which I discovered my capacity to write. I so loved to put all my senses in writing and pledged along with my pen to build a partnership which items stipulate the use of a clean word, despite the black color of ink, which is spilled on white pages to form what would be considered at a later stage to be “literature”. In the meantime, she says: I sat up watching heaps of love, passion, longing and yearning…

Hind and the Soldiers - Badriah Al Bishr

Women in my country age early. They become frustrated, depressed, wary of their illness and the illness of their children as well as the loss of husbands. Becoming older is nothing but writing about these issues, the end of their virtual seduction era. Their roles are limited and their value is declining because they spend their lives depending on others; on their fathers before getting married, on their husbands later on and then on their sons when they grow older… therefore it becomes easier for their providers to lead them. “A novel on the Saudi society transformation, and more particularly woman’s situation”.

Out of Service - Mona Merhi

Viviane looks you in the eye then confesses everything suddenly: I don’t know… just stupidities… stupidities, stupidities, stupidities!!!!! I am not willing to save the world anymore; I don’t want to be a superwoman. I am not. And I don’t want that. Out of service is a series of texts and drawings that depict the actual “moment” with its details, concerns and tiny nuances. However despite their convergence to detect that very “moment”, texts do not mirror the drawings and drawings do not reflect the texts. The moment unfolds so slowly before the reader while the picture moment slides so fast.

Immigrant’s Feelings - Mona Taym

Since her first novel “faces in shattered mirrors”, the Jordanian novelist Mona Al Sharafi Taym is still chasing butterflies of human pain to capture them inside cages, easy to be accessed and hard to be freed due to obvious scars. In “immigrant’s feelings” the novelist infiltrates smoothly human feelings, and writes the story of a woman fluctualting between willingness and loss and thus raising an important question: Is woman’s success always coupled with loss i.e. for the woman to succeed in a patriarchal world does she have to lose her feelings without consent so that success comes as a compensation for loss and continuity of life? The novel takes doctor Diana as a woman model who lives with amputated feelings, between refusal and acceptance…”.

Winds of Desire - Nadine Al Assaad

How can our life suddenly change and in just a few seconds from a state of heaven to a state of hell, from bliss to fire, from sweet to sour, love to hatred… on these moments, Nadine Al Assaad Feghali (poet and novelist from Lebanon) writes her book published recently by “Arab Scientific Publishers”. The incomplete love – according to the author – is the only thing that ignites strong jealousy inside us and hence tremendous rancor. It incites us to take revenge on those we love and those who do not love us.