tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984556843091653842024-03-05T19:50:37.563-08:00Muhsin Al-Ramlialgunas hojas del archivoMuhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.comBlogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-20857030027494166552024-01-13T12:30:00.000-08:002024-01-13T12:30:46.334-08:00Books Written by Muhsin Al-Ramli<p><br /></p>
<h4 align="center" style="background: #D42929; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Books Written by Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></h4><p style="background: rgb(255, 249, 244); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV73zsW1mlIbSVjBHUZCoJPmq9iuMPy8bNFTtRJn5gjhGrqoYY7WyzcpO_WEsVH3APTyeE7mgyyllkP0eqbjvBmM6XqOnXd1fKljudBbsKRnE8fczL5qSW2PIelPkK4bERZITvMuqeIecary4uISK6DtiDoM6FezcJk4Y5kY79zP76iZljOxAZC0Pm-K0/s1270/th1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1270" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV73zsW1mlIbSVjBHUZCoJPmq9iuMPy8bNFTtRJn5gjhGrqoYY7WyzcpO_WEsVH3APTyeE7mgyyllkP0eqbjvBmM6XqOnXd1fKljudBbsKRnE8fczL5qSW2PIelPkK4bERZITvMuqeIecary4uISK6DtiDoM6FezcJk4Y5kY79zP76iZljOxAZC0Pm-K0/w400-h334/th1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://riyadhrb.com/book-author/muhsin-al-ramli/">https://riyadhrb.com/book-author/muhsin-al-ramli/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, an accomplished Iraqi writer, poet, academic, and
translator, was born on March 7, 1967, in the village of Sudara in northern
Iraq. Since 1995. He has been residing in Madrid, Spain, where he made
significant contributions to the field of literature, both as a writer and a
translator. He is notably recognized for his translation of the iconic Spanish
classic “Don Quixote” into Arabic, demonstrating his profound expertise in
languages and literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Muhsin Al-Ramli’s academic journey
marked by his profound interest in the intersection of cultures. In 2003, he
completed his Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters and Spanish Philology at the
Autonomous University of Madrid, focusing his thesis on the influences of
Islamic culture in “Don Quixote.” This scholarly work showcases his deep
engagement with cross-cultural studies and his dedication to exploring the
connections between diverse literary traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">As an educator, Al-Ramli imparts
his knowledge and passion for literature at the Saint Louis University Madrid
Campus. He is also a pivotal figure in Arabic literary circles, serving as the
editor of Alwah, a magazine dedicated to Arabic literature and thought, which
he co-founded. This platform reflects his commitment to promoting Arabic
literature and fostering intellectual discourse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Al-Ramli’s literary contributions
encompass a wide array of genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, and
theatrical works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Muhsin
Al-Ramli’s Works:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Gift from the Century to
Come” (Short stories, 1995)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“In Search of a Live
Heart” (Theater, 1997)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Papers far from the
Tigris” (Short stories, 1998)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Scattered Crumbs” (Novel,
2000)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“The Happy Nights of the
Bombing” (Narrative, 2003)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“We Are All Widowers of
the Answers” (Poetry, 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Dates on My Fingers”
(Novel, 2008)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Asleep among the
Soldiers” (Poetry, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“The Oranges Of Baghdad
and Chinese Love” (Short stories, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“The President’s Gardens”
(Novel, 2012), which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic
Fiction (IPAF)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“The Wolf of Love and
Books” (Novel, 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Children and Shoes”
(Novel, 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Daughter of the Tigris”
(Novel, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Additionally, he has contributed to
the world of translation, notably with the Portuguese translation of “Laranjas
e giletes em Bagdá/Naranjas y cuchillas en Bagdad” by Fedra Rodríguez Hinojosa.
His diverse body of work reflects a deep engagement with themes of cultural
identity, history, and the human condition, making him a prominent voice in
contemporary Arabic literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The President’s Gardens</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOI3HqNCcZGhQZdGfC151Eg8s1NiOmYSDq1X2r5uSUlcVe6CEdiXdomI2NSsbQ-0n2ulw39DLn4tn2O-VV4MbtwPt-8vBsfr8focOIymRgJbKGJJj25_6fOvd6Rjr65FMg53_epeKS4-DyCWWs_y6h4UBltW1MUpskONWfMn70jUTtyP1AVzKTSISdf8/s1255/The%20President%E2%80%99s%20Gardens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1255" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOI3HqNCcZGhQZdGfC151Eg8s1NiOmYSDq1X2r5uSUlcVe6CEdiXdomI2NSsbQ-0n2ulw39DLn4tn2O-VV4MbtwPt-8vBsfr8focOIymRgJbKGJJj25_6fOvd6Rjr65FMg53_epeKS4-DyCWWs_y6h4UBltW1MUpskONWfMn70jUTtyP1AVzKTSISdf8/w400-h249/The%20President%E2%80%99s%20Gardens.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://riyadhrb.com/book/the-presidents-gardens/">https://riyadhrb.com/book/the-presidents-gardens/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">“</span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo;">The
President’s Gardens</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">”
by <a href="https://riyadhrb.com/?post_type=book-author&p=7810" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link_color); text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: var(--awb-link_decoration_line); text-decoration-style: var(--awb-link_decoration_style); text-decoration-thickness: var(--awb-link_decoration_thickness); text-underline-offset: var(--awb-link_decoration_underline_offset); transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: text-decoration, color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Muhsin
Al-Ramli</a> is a sweeping and profound narrative set in Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq, encompassing the tumultuous period from the Iran-Iraq War through to the
aftermath of the American invasion. This epic tale intricately weaves the lives
of three friends, each uniquely impacted by the wars and the oppressive regime
they live under.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Abdullah, one of the central characters, endures two decades
of captivity in Iran. Upon his return, confronted with a shattering revelation
about his origins. Tariq, another protagonist, is the offspring of a local
Sheikh. He skillfully evades military service, instead ascending the ladder of
power and influence. While he offers aid to his friends, Tariq’s actions are
predominantly guided by self-interest, revealing the complex interplay of
loyalty and personal ambition in times of conflict.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Ibrahim, the third key figure, suffers a personal loss of a
different nature. He loses a foot during the first Gulf War and his wife to the
ravages of cancer. His life takes an unexpected turn when he secures a
seemingly humble job in the gardens of one of the president’s palaces. However,
this role soon expands in scope and responsibility, leading him down a path he
could never have imagined.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Al-Ramli’s novel is rich with a diverse and vividly
portrayed ensemble of characters. Their interwoven stories echo the narrative
style and thematic depth found in acclaimed works such as “The Kite Runner,”
“The Yellow Birds,” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” “The President’s
Gardens” is not just a story about war and its aftermath; it delves deeply into
themes of oppression, love, marriage, familial bonds, and the human condition
under a brutal, dictatorial regime.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Spanning over 400 pages, the novel is both an epic
historical account and a philosophical exploration, offering profound insights
into the complexities of life during a period of extreme turmoil. Al-Ramli’s
masterful storytelling captures the essence of human resilience and the
enduring spirit in the face of adversity, making “The President’s Gardens” an
impactful and enduring work of literature.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #548235; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Daughter of the Tigris</span></i></b></p><p style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK3_zFXd0IeMCjuCVsMUDXJWGoS4We-lFslYOyDCHea7GudpCHegVK99JkHDdES-sTM6XNMs75u2LceKQMOhiXlhYOHHK9ss-om4wlMX1FZkao22oPEipRPsK-BFCNA7Euogu4pJPpRfy3m8lLmecqByEJD5C9_-hn-3Ue8oU-6UUhd0WD-twTikN0kRc/s1265/Daughter%20of%20the%20Tigris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1265" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK3_zFXd0IeMCjuCVsMUDXJWGoS4We-lFslYOyDCHea7GudpCHegVK99JkHDdES-sTM6XNMs75u2LceKQMOhiXlhYOHHK9ss-om4wlMX1FZkao22oPEipRPsK-BFCNA7Euogu4pJPpRfy3m8lLmecqByEJD5C9_-hn-3Ue8oU-6UUhd0WD-twTikN0kRc/w400-h233/Daughter%20of%20the%20Tigris.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://riyadhrb.com/book/daughter-of-the-tigris/">https://riyadhrb.com/book/daughter-of-the-tigris/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">“</span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo;">Daughter
of the Tigris</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">” by <a href="https://riyadhrb.com/?post_type=book-author&p=7810" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link_color); text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: var(--awb-link_decoration_line); text-decoration-style: var(--awb-link_decoration_style); text-decoration-thickness: var(--awb-link_decoration_thickness); text-underline-offset: var(--awb-link_decoration_underline_offset); transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: text-decoration, color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Muhsin
Al-Ramli</a> is a compelling narrative set in the backdrop of a tumultuous
period in Iraq, following the critically acclaimed novel “The President’s
Gardens.” The story unfolds during the Ramadan in a war-stricken Iraq, a land
described metaphorically as ‘without bananas’, symbolizing a place stripped of
its simplicity and joy. Amidst this chaos, the protagonist, Qisma, embarks on a
poignant journey to Baghdad alongside her soon-to-be husband, with a mission to
unearth the remains of her father amidst the countless casualties of a brutal
war.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Tariq, Qisma’s fiancé, sees their union as more than just a
marriage of convenience. Captivated by Qisma’s beauty and modernity, he yearns
for a deeper connection, both physical and emotional. However, Tariq, a sheikh
rooted in refined tradition, faces the challenge of harmonizing his life with
Qisma, an embodiment of contemporary Iraqi womanhood.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Set against the backdrop of political turmoil following the
overthrow of the President, Iraq transforms into a battleground for
power-hungry leaders, each vying to claim the vacant throne. Amidst this power
struggle, Qisma is engulfed by fear – fear for her son’s safety and the looming
threat of her father’s killers seeking vengeance. Her story is a vivid
portrayal of the relentless struggle for survival in a country ravaged by
conflict.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Qisma’s narrative is not just one of survival but also of
ambition. Her aspirations to carve out a piece of Iraq for herself depict the
human tendency to seek control in times of uncertainty. However, this ambition,
likened to a perilous drug, could potentially lead to her undoing. “Daughter of
the Tigris” is a tale of resilience, fear, and the consequences of ambition set
in a nation scarred by war, where survival is a daily battle, and the quest for
power is a double-edged sword.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dates on My Fingers</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoA0_TtoA5pzO3DKBeh36AwjKruXtk0dpApZ3b7B77KBsa5En916SHiM3Duizv92Oa0wPPLT2RTCvxskhJS3uqaUH_rkWf09jSESlvVYlacG7hlAkivXY5qrdqzi9j93T5FqEEMd6Oh4E6dYoyP2NXQ4S5u6Ovl-nI9wBEMKWLu5tKttfaoASfTF0xS20/s1256/Dates%20on%20My%20Fingers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1256" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoA0_TtoA5pzO3DKBeh36AwjKruXtk0dpApZ3b7B77KBsa5En916SHiM3Duizv92Oa0wPPLT2RTCvxskhJS3uqaUH_rkWf09jSESlvVYlacG7hlAkivXY5qrdqzi9j93T5FqEEMd6Oh4E6dYoyP2NXQ4S5u6Ovl-nI9wBEMKWLu5tKttfaoASfTF0xS20/w400-h243/Dates%20on%20My%20Fingers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">“</span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo;">Dates
on My Fingers</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">,” a
novel by <a href="https://riyadhrb.com/?post_type=book-author&p=7810" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link_color); text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: var(--awb-link_decoration_line); text-decoration-style: var(--awb-link_decoration_style); text-decoration-thickness: var(--awb-link_decoration_thickness); text-underline-offset: var(--awb-link_decoration_underline_offset); transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: text-decoration, color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Muhsin
Al-Ramli</a>, intricately weaves the narrative of Saleem. He is a young man
from an Iraqi village who embarks on a transformative journey to Spain. Seeking
refuge from the violence and rigid societal norms of his homeland. Saleem’s
quest for a peaceful life is abruptly interrupted when he unexpectedly
encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub. Noah’s presence, markedly
different in demeanor and appearance, ignites Saleem’s curiosity. Prompting him
to unravel the mysteries surrounding his father’s new life in Spain.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">The novel deftly transitions between Saleem’s present in
Spain and his past in Iraq. Illuminating his deeply personal experiences of
familial love amidst the backdrop of war. A particularly poignant memory is the
haunting accidental death of his cousin Aliya, with whom Saleem shared
tentative steps towards understanding sexuality. These reflections are not only
personal reckonings but also a window into the broader societal challenges
faced in Iraq.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Saleem’s journey is marked by a tumultuous reconnection with
his father. Leading to a violent confrontation that compels him to reassess his
identity and the delicate balance of his newfound stability. Al-Ramli’s
narrative skillfully carries the reader between the contrasting worlds of Spain
and Iraq. Culminating in a surprising and thought-provoking resolution.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Critically acclaimed, “Dates on My Fingers” offers a vivid
portrayal of an Iraq under oppression, transforming recent historical events
into universal stories that allow readers to draw their own conclusions and
parallels. This fast-paced novel transcends geographical boundaries, delving
into themes of youthful love, the aftermath of conflict, and the enduring
significance of family honor.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Muhsin Al-Ramli, an Iraqi-born novelist, poet, translator,
and academic, writes in both Arabic and Spanish. Exiled in 1993 due to
governmental persecution, which included the execution of his brother, Al-Ramli
has made Madrid his home. He is a professor at Saint Louis University and has
translated several Spanish classics into Arabic. His literary works include
plays, poetry, short stories, and novels, with “Dates on My Fingers” being
longlisted for the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The
English translation of this novel by Luke Leafgren, who learned Arabic during
his PhD studies at Harvard University, is his first foray into translation,
bringing Al-Ramli’s rich narrative to a broader audience.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #548235; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scattered Crumbs</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj87flTCb7lzj6ymCA20VW1B9W1GGMq7qkMmaFDr9NTx4U0Ts8p6gTIzNdzOH0psBkw50p1DswfuzCbLfjSLLvqbxF56-W2yfBrCPn3vlvGB6K6-ulI3JcGmww2uBGbSbfaLZwbobm3s7sZWZk-ydAHGX-2CicBjzUQY6ySA6YDyWc4WVskxKzahNRkty4/s1258/Scattered%20Crumbs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="1258" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj87flTCb7lzj6ymCA20VW1B9W1GGMq7qkMmaFDr9NTx4U0Ts8p6gTIzNdzOH0psBkw50p1DswfuzCbLfjSLLvqbxF56-W2yfBrCPn3vlvGB6K6-ulI3JcGmww2uBGbSbfaLZwbobm3s7sZWZk-ydAHGX-2CicBjzUQY6ySA6YDyWc4WVskxKzahNRkty4/w400-h239/Scattered%20Crumbs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p style="background: #FFF9F4; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">“</span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Heebo;">Scattered
Crumbs</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">,” authored by
Muhsin Al-Ramli, is a poignant narrative set amidst the Iran-Iraq war in an
Iraqi village. The novel critiques life under oppressive rule, exploring the
impact of dictatorship and war on an Iraqi family. Al-Ramli vividly portrays
conflicts intensified by political turmoil through this impoverished peasant
family’s lens.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Central to the
story is a father, an ardent admirer of Saddam Hussein, known as “The Leader.”
His fervent support for the dictatorship starkly contrasts with his son’s, an
artist. The son’s love for his homeland is palpable, yet he faces a moral and
artistic quandary. He cannot bring himself to paint the Leader’s portrait, as
demanded by his father. The ideological clash mirrors broader societal
conflicts, symbolizing generational and intellectual rifts exacerbated by the
regime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4 data-fontsize="20" data-lineheight="26px" style="--fontsize: 20; --minfontsize: 20; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h4_typography-color); font-size: var(--h4_typography-font-size); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: var(--h4_typography-font-weight); line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: var(--h4_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h4_typography-margin-top); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A Tale
of Identity, Exile, and Suffering in 1980s Iraq Amidst Dictatorship and
Conflict</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">The narrator, another crucial character, recounts the
gradual disintegration of his family. Departing in search of his cousin, he
reflects on the scant knowledge defined by his cousin’s absence. This journey
symbolizes a broader search for identity and belonging amidst the chaos of war
and dictatorship.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">“Scattered Crumbs,” originally published in Arabic in Cairo
in 2000, has been masterfully translated to convey the original text’s subtle
sarcasm and elliptical rhythms. Translator Yasir Suleiman brings to the fore
the novel’s nuanced exploration of the deterioration of both the country and
its people, who are swept into the maelstrom of political and social upheaval.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #FFF9F4; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Heebo;">Al-Ramli’s
narrative depicts exile’s harsh realities, driven by explosive forces. The pain
mirrors skin flaying for those trampled in their homeland. The novel stitches
memories – Azawi’s café, Basra’s winged bull. Older generations cling, while
younger ones, overwhelmed, seek refuge in succinct expressions. “Scattered
Crumbs,” set in 1980s Iraq, reflects profound suffering during dictatorship and
conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-984451312809261212023-02-28T14:43:00.002-08:002023-02-28T18:04:50.977-08:00Top 10 List of Iraqi Fiction/ The Markaz<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">here
are 10 books that will help further explore the diversity of Iraqi literature
available in English right now.</span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="background: white; color: #28303d; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16pt;">The President’s
Gardens</span></b></em><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;">by</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16pt;"> Muhsin Al-Ramli,<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #843c0c; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">translated by</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #843c0c; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> Luke Leafgren<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #7F6000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(MacLehose
Press, 2017)</span></strong><span style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: unset; background-clip: unset; background-color: white; background-image: unset; background-origin: unset; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: var(--wp--typography--line-height, var(--global--line-height-body)); margin: 24pt 0cm; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJsUg9gixJDaYjqut1eFhpwzuaO1KhldXQZ6kZq-EyfubY_zYJMCZ_2OYG8V3CU9W_zcFSSxN5aGmhuyzy2Z_FrJnc3EBwO5aCAI90NtyVpv8a2NSO9oVvCWQHTqh2mXtLguki_qTgPrg3IMQsqq3_hIKTo47Ca-ZJx3aa3xGrGsf4nnA9g9fr7Dh3/s1304/5670.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1304" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJsUg9gixJDaYjqut1eFhpwzuaO1KhldXQZ6kZq-EyfubY_zYJMCZ_2OYG8V3CU9W_zcFSSxN5aGmhuyzy2Z_FrJnc3EBwO5aCAI90NtyVpv8a2NSO9oVvCWQHTqh2mXtLguki_qTgPrg3IMQsqq3_hIKTo47Ca-ZJx3aa3xGrGsf4nnA9g9fr7Dh3/w400-h254/5670.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Set
during the last fifty years of Iraqi history, this novel begins with a horrific
morning. It is the third day of Ramadan and the village without bananas wakes
up to find nine banana crates stacked by the bus stop, each with the severed
head of one of its sons. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in
Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. The novel explores what it is
that warrants such a gruesome ending. Described by Hassan Blasim, Iraqi author
of <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The Iraqi Christ</span></em> as “a
contemporary tragedy of epic proportions,” the novel is masterfully woven from
the miserable stories of the real people of Iraq, while highlighting resounding
and universal concerns. Think <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">One
Hundred Years of Solitude</span></em> meets <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
Kite Runner</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: unset; background-clip: unset; background-image: unset; background-origin: unset; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: var(--wp--typography--line-height, var(--global--line-height-body)); margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">When the novel appeared in English in 2017, it was
acclaimed by all critics and went on to win the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize
for Arabic Literary Translation. The translation of its sequel, <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Daughter of the Tigris (2019)</span></b></em> was
practically published at the same time as publication of the Arabic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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الإنجليزية في الوقت الحالي</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR" style="background: white; color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" dir="RTL" style="background: white; direction: rtl; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><em><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">حدائق الرئيس</span></b></em><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;"> لمحسن الرملي<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" dir="RTL" style="background: white; direction: rtl; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><strong><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #843c0c; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">ترجمة </span></strong><strong><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #843c0c; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">لوك ليفغرين</span></strong><strong><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #843c0c; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></strong><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><strong><span dir="LTR" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #843c0c; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong><strong><span dir="LTR" style="color: #843c0c; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">(MacLehose
Press, 2017)</span></strong><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #843c0c; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p dir="RTL" style="background: white; direction: rtl; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #28303d; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">تدور أحداث هذه الرواية خلال الخمسين عامًا الأخيرة من التاريخ
العراقي، تبدأ بصباح مُرِّوع؛ اليوم الثالث من شهر رمضان حين تستيقظ القرية
الخالية من الموز لتجد تسعة صناديق موز مكدسة بجوار محطة الحافلات، ومع كل منها
رأس مقطوع لأحد أبناء القرية. كان أحدهم ينتمي إلى أحد أكثر الرجال المطلوبين في
العراق، المعروف لدى أصدقائه باسم "إبراهيم قسمة". تستكشف الرواية ما
يبرر مثل هذه النهاية البشعة. وصف الرواية حسن بلاسم <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">مؤلف كتاب "المسيح</span></em> العراقي"
بأنها: "مأساة معاصرة ذات أبعاد ملحمية"، الرواية منسوجة ببراعة من
القصص البائسة للشعب العراقي الحقيقي، سلطت الضوء على الاهتمامات الهائلة
والعالمية. تبدو الرواية وكأنها <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">مائة عام من العزلة</span></em> وقد
دُمجت برواية <em><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">عداء الطائرة الورقية</span></em></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span style="color: #28303d; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> <span lang="AR-SA">عندما
نُشرت الرواية باللغة الإنجليزية في العام 2017، نالت استحسان جميع النقاد وفازت
بجائزة سيف غباش بانيبال للترجمة الأدبية العربية للعام 2018. نُشرت ترجمة الجزء <em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">الثاني</span></em></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><em><span dir="LTR" style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>:</span></em><em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure);"><b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></em><em><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #28303d; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">بنت دجلة</span></b></em><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><em><b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
(2019)</span></b></em><span dir="LTR" style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #28303d; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Merriweather; mso-hansi-font-family: Merriweather;">عمليًا في نفس وقت نشر اللغة
العربية</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #28303d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://themarkaz.org/ar/reading-iraq-our-top-10-list-of-iraqi-fiction/">https://themarkaz.org/ar/reading-iraq-our-top-10-list-of-iraqi-fiction/</a></span></p></div>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-57636206168092129832023-02-27T06:26:00.001-08:002023-02-27T06:26:21.097-08:00Review: Dates on My Fingers. By: Azeez Jasim <p> <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: MontserratEB, serif; font-size: 16pt;">A Book Review:</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "MontserratEB",serif; font-size: 19.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Is it ‘Dates on My Fingers’?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBKOSNKzZ45JnvdsKDOqa6o9MdiDLQcie9OmlGIG8LV_CYBooUWfkgX7qp6Jf20VaUCSyS1soz2TJ646AobFwW6BMDerOi4Pq2C0d54PrJR2oai_fAOzIABGXJUjgmPEq-G5y5eDEs0LKZwPTCqrvv8ZxNKrCKYCzQWGsv92dgd5g53JeV0e0IBPqZ/s1309/Omanobserver%20Muhsin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1309" data-original-width="844" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBKOSNKzZ45JnvdsKDOqa6o9MdiDLQcie9OmlGIG8LV_CYBooUWfkgX7qp6Jf20VaUCSyS1soz2TJ646AobFwW6BMDerOi4Pq2C0d54PrJR2oai_fAOzIABGXJUjgmPEq-G5y5eDEs0LKZwPTCqrvv8ZxNKrCKYCzQWGsv92dgd5g53JeV0e0IBPqZ/w258-h400/Omanobserver%20Muhsin.jpg" width="258" /></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: right;"> </span></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">By: </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Azeez
Jasim Mohammed</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 249); font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Novel title: “Dates
on My Fingers”</span><span style="font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span style="background: #FBFBF9;">Author: Muhsin Al-Ramli</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span style="background: #FBFBF9;">Language: Arabic</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span style="background: #FBFBF9;">Publisher: Al Mada House for publishing</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span style="background: #FBFBF9;">Pages: 173</span></span><span style="font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<i><span style="background: #FBFBF9;">“Dates on My Fingers”</span></i><span style="background: #FBFBF9;"> is a novel of moral values that advises readers not
to spend time thinking of a plan that reaps nothing finally. The novel focuses
on the discrepancy between achieving one’s ends after consuming long time by
harnessing all self-abilities and the quality of the results that one reaches
afterwards. It gives a lesson that not all enjoyable actions leave good impression
after they are over.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 249); font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Noh, an obedient son of a Shaikh who belongs to a tribe of a huge
number of his own people, is changed suddenly into a man who lost his temper
and starts behaving savagely. The change in his personality frightened
psychologists as his sudden transformation into a whimsical man proves how
people can change easily to this extent. Noh spends most of the remaining of
his life seeking revenge; not for the sake of ecstasy but for regain rectitude
that he lost when his ill daughter is harassed, in his presence, by a son of an
influential man. He does not know that he is going to be fatigued by the
psychological thinking of revenge which will put an end to his clannish, social
and moral pertinence. In the same way that Hamlet does when he abnegates the
luxurious and royal life he lives just to make himself convinced whether his
mother and his uncle are betrayals when they lead such a harmful conspiracy
against his father or not, the inner conflict that leads to his fate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 249); font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The context of the story shows the reader that the more time you take
to achieve your end, the more disastrous results will be not only on your
shoulders but also on those whom you like as well. His reaction to get revenge,
which is supported by his relatives, burdens him insofar as burdening them all
and it becomes a boring mission though it still sounds interesting to him. The
loss that Noh faces, so to speak, is not only ideological, but it is a loss of
an individual’s own social entity. This is because the decision of
counterattacking, as a reaction to revenge, is a conduct of challenging a
state, and it comes to be thought politically as making a rift in the entity of
the state itself. No one cares about Noh’s feeling as a father who is insulted
in public and in his daughter’s presence. Noh spends his life respecting others
in the same way that he expects respect from others and that’s perhaps why he
expects more from those who find him doing nothing rather than destruction.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 249); font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">From a rural character into a dude one, from a man of social
commitments into an apathetic man, and from obedient into indocile, Noh is seen
changed completely throughout the plot of the story. All his family members are
shattered here and there in this world, and he finds himself travelling to different
countries, changing his habits and dropping most of his values just to bite a
dog in the same way that the dog bites him.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 249); font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The novel reflects Muhsin Al-Ramli’s bad impression about life in
diaspora through his experience of living abroad. The author calls for
compromise and he tries to forward a message of hope to those who suffers from
consuming their life just for the sake of getting revenge. The concept of this
novel is quite clear that if you want to live with peace of mind then think as
Dale Carnegie puts it “stop worrying and start living.”</span><span style="font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 249); font-family: SourceR, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">-------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dates-My-Fingers-Modern-Literature/dp/9774166442">https://www.amazon.com/Dates-My-Fingers-Modern-Literature/dp/9774166442</a></span>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-82892276895324392642022-12-27T11:43:00.001-08:002022-12-27T11:43:58.262-08:00Conflicto Humano en La Novela del iraquí Muhsin Al-Ramli /Hanan Younus <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">مظاهر الصراع الإنساني في رواية (تمر الأصابع) </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">لمحسن الرملي</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgH7Fk1STvH5GTRWtrliN9OOPd7r3oKHUgqyHoYxWY1PgTI_XXRdHyUVsM3jgHAuhmKeDfZGAoRoC7WRO7OtGamkwzHmZYRD-TRE3gYuK4UMxxhd2PM6tC5FC3MUm8kuU2ZdDzXOxcJx8-JbupzJuyfXezH1-UHUucG3x-DEuHr-VrXWNuX9RTKmW/s4537/0Muhsin%20Ramli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3144" data-original-width="4537" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgH7Fk1STvH5GTRWtrliN9OOPd7r3oKHUgqyHoYxWY1PgTI_XXRdHyUVsM3jgHAuhmKeDfZGAoRoC7WRO7OtGamkwzHmZYRD-TRE3gYuK4UMxxhd2PM6tC5FC3MUm8kuU2ZdDzXOxcJx8-JbupzJuyfXezH1-UHUucG3x-DEuHr-VrXWNuX9RTKmW/w400-h278/0Muhsin%20Ramli.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Las Manifestaciones
del Conflicto Humano </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">en La Novela "Dedos de Dátiles"<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">del autor iraquí
Muhsin Al<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>-</span>Ramli</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">حنان يونس محمد</span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hanan Younus Mohammed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-themecolor: text1;">Al-Ramli intenta
en sus obras narrativas, y por su sentimiento sensible y la profundidad de su
conocimiento, atraer la atención a las cuestiones del hombre en la sociedad y
sus problemas que se mezclan con los sufrimientos, donde escribe sobre el
hombre y sus sufrimientos y sus preocupaciones en un mundo amenazado por las
gravedades. Él nos ofrece todo esto en un estilo narrativo, un simple lenguaje
y unas acciones de la realidad a través de los personajes, el tiempo y el
lugar. También, en algunas veces el diálogo y la descripción ocupan un gran
papel en la obra según la necesidad del texto. El objeto del estudio es
establecer una búsqueda en el conflicto humano, y cómo parece con los
personajes dentro la sociedad de "<i>Dedos de Dátiles</i>", además de
sus reflexiones a ellos. Cuando el lector lee esta novela en primera vez,
observa que el hombre vive entre el pasado y el presente, entre la tradición y
la modernidad, y por eso la investigadora va a seguir aquel conflicto humano y
sus manifestaciones. Los personajes en la obra son prisioneros del sufrimiento
y la tensión, pero, al mismo tiempo buscan la salvación de todas las causas del
sufrimiento: la violencia, las guerras, la injusticia, la autoridad
paternal-religiosa y además de la del gobierno.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-themecolor: text1;">In his novel
writings, with his delicate sense and depth of vision, Al-Ramli tried to draw attention
to human issues in society and their problems to the sufferings. He wrote about
man, his suffering and his concern in a world threatened by danger, and all
this presented to us in a narrative style and in simple language with one of
the most precious realities through people, time and place. Dialogue and
description sometimes also play a major part of the work in accordance with the
necessity of the text. The study was therefore aimed at examining the human
conflict and how it appeared with the characters within a community and the
novel “<i>Dates on My Fingers</i>,” as well as its implications on them.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The reader, while reading the novel for the first
time, notices that man lives between the past and the present, between
tradition and modernity and that's why the researcher will pursue that
humanitarian conflict and its phenomena. The characters in the novel “Dates on
My Fingers” were prisoners of suffering and anxiety, but at the same time, they
were seeking salvation from all causes of suffering: violence, wars, injustice,
power, including patriarchal and religious authority, as well as the government
authority.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This abstract translated by Dar AlMandumah Inc.
2018</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 115%; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">حاول الرملي في كتاباته الروائية بإحساسه المرهف وعمق بصيرته أن
يجذب الأنظار إلى قضايا الإنسان في المجتمع ومشكلاتها لتيامتز جتب المعاناة، إذ
كتب عن الإنسان ومعاناته وهمومه في عالم مهدد بالأخطار، كل هذا قدمه لنا بأسلوب
سردي وبلغة بسيطة مع أحد أثمن الواقع من خلال الأشخاص والزمان والمكان، كذلك كان
الحوار والوصف في بعض الأحيان يشغلان دورا كبيرا في العمل على وفق ضرورة النص لذا
استهدفت الدراسة إلى البحث في الصراع الإنساني وكيف ظهر مع الشخصيات داخل مجتمع
وراية "تمر الأصابع"، فضلا عن انعكاساته عليها</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
</span><span lang="AR-SA" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">أن القارئ حين يقرأ الرواية لأول مرة يلاحظ أن الإنسان يعيش بين
الماضي والحاضر، وبين التقليد والحداثة. ولهذا سوف تتابع الباحثة ذلك الصراع
الإنساني ومظاهرة، لقد كانت الشخصيات في "تمر الأصابع" سجناء المعاناة
والتوتر، ولكنهم في الوقت نفسه يبحثون عن الخلاص من كل مسببات المعاناة: العنف
والحروب والظلم والسلطة ومنها السلطة الأبوية والدينية فضلا عن سلطة الحكومة<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://search.mandumah.com/Record/956303">https://search.mandumah.com/Record/956303</a></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-71158284013451638362022-11-16T14:26:00.004-08:002022-11-16T14:39:00.064-08:00Literatura iraquí / Elige libro<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Los jardines del presidente<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #843c0c; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Es una
historia de muerte, amor y amistad</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRKcaC7IYST8yII9BCkao_yuRj8lkIWX_OVOwdTlxCC-rWuulX1jS5zAoeNoFhp91yt_UIrnNvzs5deiQYFfqctazA0AvU4zIflDE7vm14qIMHax3A6paDctHzip3IwyJbfZemml17izylQkml_2iGIseLxucZcq5IY1RCwbUUe5l2UAHgBA-HV2d/s831/eligelibroLosjardines.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="831" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRKcaC7IYST8yII9BCkao_yuRj8lkIWX_OVOwdTlxCC-rWuulX1jS5zAoeNoFhp91yt_UIrnNvzs5deiQYFfqctazA0AvU4zIflDE7vm14qIMHax3A6paDctHzip3IwyJbfZemml17izylQkml_2iGIseLxucZcq5IY1RCwbUUe5l2UAHgBA-HV2d/w400-h398/eligelibroLosjardines.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">por: </span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nagore Pérez</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><a href="https://eligelibro.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">eligelibro.com</span></a><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Podría decir que esta novela me ha
sacado de «mi zona de confort lectora» no solo por diferente sino porque impele
a la reflexión, me ha enseñado mucho sobre Irak, sobre sus gentes y costumbres
y además es bastante entretenida, dentro de la extrema dureza de sus páginas.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">El libro es una sucesión de momentos
amargos y crudos y no es para menos teniendo en cuenta que recorre la historia
de Irak en sus últimos cincuenta años. Cincuenta años repletos de cruentas
guerras, empezando por la guerra con Irán, pasando por la guerra del golfo tras
la invasión de Kuwait, hasta la invasión de Irak por parte de una alianza de
naciones encabezada por Estados Unidos.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;">La historia se cuenta desde el prisma de tres
inseparables amigos de la infancia Tarek, Abdulá Kafka e Ibrahim, criados en un
entorno rural en el que viven felices hasta que se van sucediendo los
diferentes acontecimientos en sus vidas, intrínsecamente unidos a los
acontecimientos del propio país. Uno de ellos sufre las torturas de la
república islámica de Irán, otro será mutilado en la guerra de Kuwait… en
definitiva los protagonistas sufren en sus carnes los horrores de la guerra y
la sinrazón del régimen dictatorial de Sadam Husein.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">La novela termina en 2006, tras el
derrocamiento de Sadam, y pareciera que al cerrar la última página se cerrara
la historia de horror de Irak. Sin embargo, nunca fue así, la calma y la paz no
consiguen posarse en Irak, menos ahora que ha aparecido en escena el Estado
Islámico y después de acabar con la vida de miles de civiles tiene
aterrorizados a los iraquíes (entre otros).</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">El autor <b>Muhsin Al-Ramli</b> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alramlimuhsin/?hl=es" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(var(--ig-link)); cursor: pointer; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; outline: none; touch-action: manipulation; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@alramlimuhsin</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #262626;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, merece una mención para aquellos que como en mi caso no lo
conozcáis. Se trata de uno de los más prestigiosos escritores de Irak, aunque
lleva años residiendo en Madrid. Nadie mejor que él, exiliado del país y
perseguido por el régimen puede apuntalar la historia que cuenta. Su hermano,
Hassan Mutlak (el conocido como Lorca Iraquí) fue ahorcado por el régimen de
Sadam en 1990.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Es una historia difícil, pero merece
la pena leerla, no es solo una historia de muerte, es sobre todo una historia
de amor y de amistad.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ClB-QYmtqS4/?hl=es">https://www.instagram.com/p/ClB-QYmtqS4/?hl=es</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>The President's Gardens </i>: Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlZekvIMmpgzVAjRBcP_RdDDH8uZlUlTRytDWBt5PTyP9_oxSHmcYM-AZDX74xmzrRUZyRShfWY2BxCCjZkKY5ThQQRu0pn9wyWMmY9rt-m36SyOOa97V7AtvRXoBoaCQOim0RsPDolwC9rbSYaCPHq4LX_UNTTuA46RskQczWF4yZmUchHsWpIXN/s1252/1q0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1252" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlZekvIMmpgzVAjRBcP_RdDDH8uZlUlTRytDWBt5PTyP9_oxSHmcYM-AZDX74xmzrRUZyRShfWY2BxCCjZkKY5ThQQRu0pn9wyWMmY9rt-m36SyOOa97V7AtvRXoBoaCQOim0RsPDolwC9rbSYaCPHq4LX_UNTTuA46RskQczWF4yZmUchHsWpIXN/w400-h335/1q0.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="summary" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">Together, we share our stories about Iraq and meet
new people in a supportive environment. We do this by talking about books.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">About this event<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">We
are a community group of people who have a relationship with Iraq. Some of us
were born there, some of our parents were born there, some have lived and
worked there and some are just curious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">Together,
we aim to share our stories about Iraq and meet new people in a supportive environment.
We do this by talking about books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">We
talk about books written by Iraqi authors, both non-fiction and fiction. We
like to read traditionally minority voices, like those of women, religious
minorities and people who are queer. We do this so we can get the full picture
of what it means to live in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">🇮🇶</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Iraq.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">We
meet every other month online to learn and get to know new people. Every so
often we have a get-together in person somewhere in the UK. All sessions are
appropriate for anyone with an open mind and heart, of any ethnicity and
background!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">____</span><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjD4WZ55bPmTqgK_tEOyqcGrMxQnniBDIbZ9gBlgUt8KeV-CA24OmN38dKkbKSvNwRoshavga2k6eyN8-5Ab8ZoICCdKg4AvOFGwueZrsXiFptNOi5Si55IVbEllSPVgd2FtQPGNeQT-83nve71ZG3VdkhEpZiP_DPzXCyH1sZunrK85e5LU3Q3F4/s2592/IMAG0631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1552" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjD4WZ55bPmTqgK_tEOyqcGrMxQnniBDIbZ9gBlgUt8KeV-CA24OmN38dKkbKSvNwRoshavga2k6eyN8-5Ab8ZoICCdKg4AvOFGwueZrsXiFptNOi5Si55IVbEllSPVgd2FtQPGNeQT-83nve71ZG3VdkhEpZiP_DPzXCyH1sZunrK85e5LU3Q3F4/w240-h400/IMAG0631.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">BOOK
OF THE MONTH | <i>The President's Gardens</i> - Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">On
the third day of Ramadan, a small village in Iraq wakes to find the severed
heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">One
of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as
Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many?
What did he do to deserve such a death?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
answer lies behind the locked gates of <i>The President's gardens</i>, buried
alongside the countless victims of a pitiless reign of terror.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-themecolor: text1;">Join
us to chat about our responses to these writings and (if we have them our own
dreams for the future of Iraq</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxB5NbWHcp6Auus_z_p-6zUmh9xpgjXoAqTJmVoxPwvxEKuvjcXj8IsqGbmSz1-VwmsnJsBIJ9m2N0WDe_f-xwOtEE4KHewJnv8tzM0E4L21eVjxlnnZk8HztKVU7Ua1mhuLiyOmVnUnrLr5_L0YT-6Bq6LzFXMT6h0ZEmMHwJHkvbHAD0v6fyncaJ/s830/p1sUSA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="830" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxB5NbWHcp6Auus_z_p-6zUmh9xpgjXoAqTJmVoxPwvxEKuvjcXj8IsqGbmSz1-VwmsnJsBIJ9m2N0WDe_f-xwOtEE4KHewJnv8tzM0E4L21eVjxlnnZk8HztKVU7Ua1mhuLiyOmVnUnrLr5_L0YT-6Bq6LzFXMT6h0ZEmMHwJHkvbHAD0v6fyncaJ/w400-h359/p1sUSA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iraqi-book-club-the-presidents-gardens-muhsin-al-ramli-tickets-399470154987">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iraqi-book-club-the-presidents-gardens-muhsin-al-ramli-tickets-399470154987</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-38364424510245399212022-09-20T16:15:00.002-07:002022-09-20T16:15:41.471-07:00Entrevista, Muhsin Al-Ramli, Radio Casa Bukowski<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background: white; direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">حوار مع </span><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #1d9bf0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">#محسن_الرملي</span><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> بالإسبانية </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background: white; direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">في راديو دار بوكوفسكي</span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Entrevista con <b>Muhsin Al-Ramli</b>, </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">en <b>Radio
Casa Bukowski</b>,<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>el programa <i>DESDE EL
OTRO LADO DEL MAR</i>! <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Por: <b>Cristina Penalva</b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3ydX9FSFDqoPE_vg9hIe9T1ONMf1-IIX39YecaM1JepDXp0KGbpNATpfM2oOoKjzHC0rAK-K5QI6l4cAkbSIvlnzRwF3B9T5_KLGPQZ__ZQ5eieW0zQGlAanM_E6IrFLAaU2oHZzej_tok-uqE86jbAge4mTzvxgxnDjwoc_010ASzV_2HPZaPbI/s1284/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%20%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1284" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3ydX9FSFDqoPE_vg9hIe9T1ONMf1-IIX39YecaM1JepDXp0KGbpNATpfM2oOoKjzHC0rAK-K5QI6l4cAkbSIvlnzRwF3B9T5_KLGPQZ__ZQ5eieW0zQGlAanM_E6IrFLAaU2oHZzej_tok-uqE86jbAge4mTzvxgxnDjwoc_010ASzV_2HPZaPbI/w400-h246/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%20%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1d9bf0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://radiobukowski.org/desde-el-otro-lado-del-mar/desde-el-otro-lado-del-mar-episodio-38-muhsin-al-ramli-narrador-poeta-ensayista-traductor-guionista-y-dramaturgo/">https://radiobukowski.org/desde-el-otro-lado-del-mar/desde-el-otro-lado-del-mar-episodio-38-muhsin-al-ramli-narrador-poeta-ensayista-traductor-guionista-y-dramaturgo/</a></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #1d9bf0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKO3j5-_WW1T5psz9BHtfoPGnNGKqvomNy7x1LKSys2WItjLlfGj9xO5N6iX8tTPR6NSmdvYERQqf_5bY8HzZGCJ6oLVUjsduJhUBL9Nvf_pwRII_FwQT2BOAALEdjCLk-snOHk2-i5k5aHXOlK5UOnzFgD_SNcrmDTDPkruNceVp5yYj4YO-dZmg/s860/273911405_310427174487292_3976442809434544878_n.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="668" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKO3j5-_WW1T5psz9BHtfoPGnNGKqvomNy7x1LKSys2WItjLlfGj9xO5N6iX8tTPR6NSmdvYERQqf_5bY8HzZGCJ6oLVUjsduJhUBL9Nvf_pwRII_FwQT2BOAALEdjCLk-snOHk2-i5k5aHXOlK5UOnzFgD_SNcrmDTDPkruNceVp5yYj4YO-dZmg/w311-h400/273911405_310427174487292_3976442809434544878_n.png" width="311" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>#Poesia</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span><span style="color: #1d9bf0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">#Bukowski</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span><span style="color: #1d9bf0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">#MuhsinAlRamli</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-6374166661181149442022-05-27T02:29:00.001-07:002022-05-27T02:29:21.239-07:00<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Faculty of Literature and Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Thesis for obtaining a master's degree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Arabic literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="FA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Simplified Arabic", serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 40px;">النقد الثقافي في روايات محسن الرملي</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Title:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><b><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Cultural Criticism in Muhsin
Al-Ramli's Novels</span></b><b><span lang="FA" style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Writer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><b><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mohammed Majid Ebraheem
Alkhazali</span></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></b><b><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Supervisor:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;"><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Dr. Jafar Firoozmandi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: right;"><b><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oM7vblikg4n6_wqYJ6M6e7IDPbJ827kAX_JtBTmjT-_V1_q5I6F-ObZ1rjDdye9cMSe2JeMUkrS5UrhcloE3pwf52vXjcQhguAiiSno39Gjr-ffN-LPTwTsgFxyAbCiO4wwK_msHbwTdEmKak9FEsa5ohACHJFcI1QUK9z1DABvuWUwFCp1uMKhB/s864/27603947%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B2%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="864" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oM7vblikg4n6_wqYJ6M6e7IDPbJ827kAX_JtBTmjT-_V1_q5I6F-ObZ1rjDdye9cMSe2JeMUkrS5UrhcloE3pwf52vXjcQhguAiiSno39Gjr-ffN-LPTwTsgFxyAbCiO4wwK_msHbwTdEmKak9FEsa5ohACHJFcI1QUK9z1DABvuWUwFCp1uMKhB/w400-h276/27603947%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B2%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;">Cultural criticism is
one of the most important literary phenomena that was associated with
postmodernism in the field of literature and criticism. This reaction was in
response to linguistic structuralism</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> semiotics</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and aesthetic theory</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> which on the one hand relates to literature as a formal
linguistic phenomenon.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Or an artistic and aesthetic phenomenon on the other hand are
all subject to criticism because they are a narrative system that must be
exposed to this criticism and cultural criticism deprives the text of its
aesthetic and visual content as well as its exaggerations. Extremely formal
excesses</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and placing them in the monetary base to achieve the real
perspective of the text</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and precisely related to the study and study of implicit
cultural patterns in its cultural</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> social</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> political</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> historical and religious context</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
understanding</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> It is interpreted and analyzed. In this dissertation</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> we try
to focus on cultural criticism in the novels of Dr. (Muhsin Al-Ramli)</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Muhsin
Al-Ramli</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> which is the product of the tragedy of a country that is
politically</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> socially and Muhsin Al-Ramli on the tragic consequences of this
ruling authority such as dissolution</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> corruption Corruption is one of the most important causes of
these pressures</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> authoritarianism and unjust authority that led to the
destruction of the people. And betrayal of all core values </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;">and others has created
implicit patterns and apparent problems. These patterns are highlighted in his
novels</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> which were the title of my letter in which I addressed Muhsin
Al-Ramli's cultural critique of social and political aspects. And the religious
aspect</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> which did not stop only by criticizing the past</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> but also
continued to criticize the present. It is an era of occupation that also showed
negative cases</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> some of which are negative thoughts and cases</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> some of
which are social</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> some of which are political and some of which are religious</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and some
of which have tried to destroy the country in the illusion of politics or
reforming society. Images that identify the main themes of two different lives
belong to one person. One of them was formed based on the events of immigration</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> the
injustice of the authorities and the love for his country</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>،</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> and
passion still lives in him</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" style="color: black; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mSxl39VHpQJK90FeD05jVFyMhJtK8zj61StGS37Sm9GOfmfkMMQGYLq6OHrnQ21chUxirBCQleU1Lm6d8qbZUuBM5gV8_wbd5ySOQ5cKfS9dYmm5s_DVwcISowXBrK3v7-vfoPj644gZ95ORsqmAsZLepszK4DYqlHMvBwRIUoRfcbjJtUAlJzvA/s373/278606473_530768388398048_2478257298609564978_n%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mSxl39VHpQJK90FeD05jVFyMhJtK8zj61StGS37Sm9GOfmfkMMQGYLq6OHrnQ21chUxirBCQleU1Lm6d8qbZUuBM5gV8_wbd5ySOQ5cKfS9dYmm5s_DVwcISowXBrK3v7-vfoPj644gZ95ORsqmAsZLepszK4DYqlHMvBwRIUoRfcbjJtUAlJzvA/w300-h400/278606473_530768388398048_2478257298609564978_n%20(1).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-19182112527840616002022-04-05T10:03:00.001-07:002022-04-05T10:03:48.672-07:00Un café literario con el Dr. Muhsin Al-Ramli. Maletas de Cartón<p><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span> </span>Un café literario con el Dr. Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="color: #393939; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCoO2gaF-IbfEfFpwR1dxVemA_zVOKUAfz9ASv444ZxftIELp4N5qSQ07YGzJYjCdAvR-tB6WJmQmJpBTWpb3uJgvWlR6h72xNwJ0KGRHUs8GVceh335ZRoSJHNUTyalL4snLtuN5CMQlccs1I-xAiwYoYffjdvX5OJg3GXHJ8964EKAy6z1cxO7B/s834/Alramli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="759" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCoO2gaF-IbfEfFpwR1dxVemA_zVOKUAfz9ASv444ZxftIELp4N5qSQ07YGzJYjCdAvR-tB6WJmQmJpBTWpb3uJgvWlR6h72xNwJ0KGRHUs8GVceh335ZRoSJHNUTyalL4snLtuN5CMQlccs1I-xAiwYoYffjdvX5OJg3GXHJ8964EKAy6z1cxO7B/w364-h400/Alramli.jpg" width="364" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: right;"><span style="background: white; color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Por:</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Yousef
Al-Dubai<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mi entrada de hoy busca ser un relato
sobre el escritor y novelista Dr. Muhsin Al-Ramli. Hijo del gran país de Irak,
llegó a España hace casi dos décadas y media trayendo consigo gran parte de la
cultura, herencia y literatura de su patria. La ha ido mezclando día a día con
la cultura y la literatura española, y esa diversidad cultural dio como
resultado una continua y hermosa cadena de libros, novelas e investigaciones
que contribuyeron a enriquecer el ambiente literario tanto de la cultura árabe
como en la española.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Había leído tres libros del Dr. Muhsin;
“<i>Los jardines del presidente</i>” y “<i>Dedos de dátiles</i>” que son dos
novelas que arrojan luz sobre la historia contemporánea de Irak, y reflejan las
costumbres, tradiciones y la vida social y política de ese antiguo país. El
otro libro es: “<i>La Literatura Española en su Siglo de Oro</i>” que es un
estudio crítico, histórico y cultural, que hace un seguimiento de las
transformaciones acaecidas en la literatura española en los siglos XVI y
XVII. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">El libro contiene
también cincuenta cuentos de catorce escritores españoles del siglo de oro,
además de una antología de más de cien poemas y tres breves modelos teatrales
del escritor español más relevante: “Miguel de Cervantes”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lo que despertó
más mi interés fueron las nuevas ideas que el Dr. Muhsin trajo en su tesis,
porque eran únicas, nuevas y atrevidas al mismo tiempo. Porque trataban un tema
muy emocionante e interesante, que nadie había tocado antes: “<i>El impacto de
la cultura árabe e islámica en Don Quijote</i>”. Siendo una de las más
importantes novelas escritas en español, que ha sido objeto de decenas de miles
de investigaciones y estudios en los últimos cuatro siglos, el Dr. Muhsin
decidió enriquecer el tema y añadir enfoques apasionantes en la vida de
Cervantes y su influencia en la cultura árabe e islámica, así como el reflejo
de esa influencia en Don Quijote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">El Dr. Muhsin es
una persona fuerte y hecha a sí misma, que fue testigo de muchos eventos
políticos en Irak. Ha sido amenazado y hostigado en varias ocasiones,
especialmente después del intento de golpe de estado contra el régimen en Irak
en el que perdió a su hermano mayor. Debido a todos estos acontecimientos, huyó
a Jordania en 1991 y trabajó allí como periodista y traductor. Luego tuvo la
oportunidad de ser aceptado en la Universidad de Madrid, por lo que vino a
España en el año 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">A pesar de las
muchas dificultades y duras condiciones que obligaron al Dr. Muhsin a
enfrentarse a muchos retos tras su llegada a Madrid, con valentía no se
desesperó y continuó su carrera académica, narrativa y literaria. Como él dice:
“Cada mañana es un regalo precioso que debemos aprovechar y disfrutar
plenamente”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">El Dr. Muhsin es escritor, poeta,
traductor y académico. Escribe tanto en árabe como en español. Obtuvo su
doctorado, con matrícula de honor, en la Facultad de Filosofía de la
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid por su tesis ya mencionada (El impacto de
la cultura islámica en el Quijote) en 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Algunos de sus
libros y textos han sido traducidos a multitud de idiomas como español, inglés,
francés, italiano, alemán, portugués, turco, ruso, catalán, albanés, finlandés
y kurdo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">También ha
impartido muchas conferencias y participado en muchos seminarios, veladas,
conferencias y ferias del libro en Irak, Jordania, Marruecos, España, Portugal,
Kuwait, Luxemburgo, Qatar, Colombia, Argelia, Libia, México, Costa Rica y los
Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Actualmente es profesor en la Universidad
Americana de Saint Louis en Madrid, y reside en España. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nuestro encuentro
fue en el centro de la capital, Madrid, concretamente en Tirso de Molina. Creo
que fue un lindo gesto del Dr. Muhsin, ya que sugirió el lugar de encuentro en
el centro de Madrid y eligió un café que se llama “Galicia”, que es la región
de donde él pensaba que yo venía. Cerca de esa plaza está el mercado popular de
los domingos, “El Rastro”, cuyos puestos y sonidos de los vendedores me
recordaron a Bagdad, Damasco, El Cairo, Marrakech y otras ciudades árabes,
donde abundan los mercados populares.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Con una cara
alegre y una gran sonrisa, el Dr. Muhsin nos saludó y me saludó, ¡con un
hermoso acento iraquí!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Hola,
yousef!.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;"> ¿Cómo
estás?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Después de
intercambiar saludos, empezamos a charlar y pasamos a tratar muchos temas
culturales, literarios e históricos. Hablamos de Yemen y la antigua relación de
este con el subcontinente ibérico. También de Zaragoza, donde la mayoría de los
sus antiguos residentes árabes eran yemeníes (algunas familias aún se mantienen
allí, con el título yemení hasta el día de hoy), además de la presencia de
algunos edificios con ventanas ennegrecidas, puertas y techos con yeso blanco al
estilo de la arquitectura yemení.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pasamos a hablar
de su tesis doctoral, que despertó mucho interés en los círculos literarios del
mundo árabe. Me habló de la dificultad de traducir la poesía árabe clásica al
español y otras lenguas, por las dimensiones históricas y culturales que
permean la poesía, así como y las estructuras y formas lingüísticas propia de
la lengua materna.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Empezamos a
discutir sobre muchos temas culturales, literarios y políticos, y esto nos
llevó de nuevo a hablar del libro “Cuando éramos árabes” de Emilio González
Ferrín, que habla de la historia de musulmanes y árabes en el subcontinente
ibérico. En opinión del Dr. Muhsin, es un muy buen libro porque se mueve mucho
del relato predominante en torno a la historia de la Península Ibérica.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hablar con el Dr.
Muhsin no aburre, tiene un gran conocimiento y un hermoso estilo de narración,
te da una imagen clara y completa del tema de conversación en frases cortas que
reflejan su vasta cultura y su gran conocimiento de varios temas. Aunque está
lejos del Medio Oriente en cuerpo, siempre está conectado a él. Sigue sus
noticias y busca a tientas su inquietudes y problemas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Este encuentro con
el Dr. Muhsin fue el primer encuentro en la capital, Madrid, con el que el
destino nos unió. Pero sentí que entre él y yo había una relación que se
extiende por años, conocí su carácter a través de sus libros desde el primer
momento que cayeron en mis manos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nuestra reunión
terminó con la esperanza de que se repetirá lo antes posible, y el Dr. Muhsin
me entregó una copia en árabe de su novela “<i>Bint Tigris</i>”; <i>La hija del
Tigris</i>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Raleway; mso-themecolor: text1;">Por tanto, ahora
he agregado un nuevo libro a mi biblioteca firmado por su autor. Seguiré
navegando y leyendo en su mundo lleno de emoción y belleza.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lo más lindo de ese día fue que éramos cuatro personas de
diferentes países; el Dr. Muhsin es de Irak, yo soy de Yemen, la señorita
Silvia es de Italia y el amigo Diego es de Perú. Venimos de diferentes
ambientes, diferentes culturas, y diferentes costumbres y tradiciones, pero
tenemos en común la literatura, los libros nos unieron. Y eso es lo que busco
por donde voy, las cosas que unen, las cosas en común que tenemos. ¡Son muchas
cosas hermosas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #7f6000; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #7F6000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">*Publicado en: <b><i>Maletas de Cartón</i></b>, en
marzo 2022 Madrid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Al-Ramli: </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 16.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 16.5pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #843c0c; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">حدائق الرئيس</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The President’s Gardens</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://www.themodernnovel.org/asia/arab/iraq/muhsin-al-ramli/the-presidents-gardens/">https://www.themodernnovel.org/asia/arab/iraq/muhsin-al-ramli/the-presidents-gardens/</a></span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">This novel is essentially about three
(male) Iraqi friends, all of about the same age and how they grew up and
remained friends. There was Tariq, nicknamed the Befuddled <i>because he
would always show childlike amazement upon encountering any new thing or idea</i>.
He was the son of Zahir, the imam of the mosque. He will later become a teacher
and imam himself. Ibrahim was the strongest and the kindest. He was nicknamed
The Fated <i>because he accepted every report and every accident with an
astonishing equanimity</i>. He was the son of Suhayl the Damascene who had no
nose. Zahir and Suhayl had gone to fight for Palestine in the 1948 war. When an
artillery shell exploded near them, Zahir wet himself. Suhayl later got a boil
on his nose which got infected and, as it was not treated he lost his nose.
They agreed not to tell what really happened and that Suhayl lost his nose
bravely defending Damascus, hence his nickname.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The third one is Abdullah Kafka. Tariq
gave him the nickname, after reading Kafka <i>because Abdullah was
typically attuned to the blackest side of any idea or situation, and even when
he laughed, a deep and firmly rooted sadness appeared in his eyes.</i> Abdullah
was a foundling and had been adopted by the childless couple who found him,
Salih and Maryam. We know that there are some people who know who his
biological parents were but we and Abdullah only find out much later in the
book, and a very complex but sad tale it turns out to be. In the meantime, as
well as being called Kafka, he calls himself <i>son of the earth crack</i> as
that is where his adoptive father found him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The three boys grow up together and are
inseparable. When Ibrahim is fifteen, he does well at school but his father
makes him leave school so he can work in the fields. Abdullah also drops out in
sympathy. Tariq continues at school but plays truant to be with his friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">At eighteen Abdullah and Ibrahim are
called up to do military service. Tariq is still studying so he is exempt. He
will later be exempt as a teacher and imam. Ibrahim’s parents find a bride for
him while he is on military service. Abdullah and Sameetha, Tariq’s sister,
fall in love but Tariq’s father rejects Abdullah. We know but Abdullah does not
that Tariq had told his father that Abdullah would not be a suitable husband
for his sister.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">National service is coming to an end for
the two young men but Iraq and Iran went to war with each other and the pair
had to continue to serve. It was a grim war and we are given all the gory
details. Abdullah disappears and nobody knows if he is alive or a prisoner.
Ibrahim does well, becoming a master sergeant but he sees many men killed and
wounded, including some self-inflicted wounds to escape further service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">After the war Ibrahim goes back to the
fields an will eventually learn that Abdullah is a prisoner in Iran. Ibrahim is
now married with a daughter, Qisma (= <i>kismet</i>, i.e. <i>fate</i>).
Sadly, for him, he will have no further children. He does get a letter from the
Red Cross, saying that Abdullah is a prisoner of the Iranians. (We had met
Abdullah at a much later date at beginning of the book so we knew he had
survived.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Ibrahim is just settling down when Iraq
invades Kuwait. Again he is conscripted. He serves in the desert near the Saudi
border, with his friend, Ahmad, whom he had met in the Iraq-Iran war. But, as
we know, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War"><span style="color: #bc360a;">the Gulf War</span></a> happens and Ibrahim and
Ahmad and more destruction and death rain down on Iraq and our hapless heroes.
Ibrahim,as we know from the beginning, survives, though he is wounded. Once
again, we are spared none of the grisly details, as Iraq descends into
chaos. <i>They’re still bombing everything—military camps, bridges,
communication stations and towers, power plants, water treatment facilities,
government buildings, police stations, businesses, houses—everything, just
everything.</i> To make matters worse, once the coalition troops
withdraw, <i>the Republican Guard launches devastating raids against all the
cities and villages that revolted. They’re bombing schools, houses, mosques,
and mausoleums, killing without mercy</i>. Ibrahim gets home and struggles
along.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">There are three mysteries in this book,
I have mentioned the first, namely Abdullah’s origns, which are explained to
him at this point after his return from the horrors of being a prisoner in Iran
(you know the drill – no details spared).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The second mystery occurs at the very
beginning of the book. Someone finds nine banana crates in the village. (Iraq
does not grow bananas.) Each crate contains a severed head, with the ID of the
owner of the head. The bodies are nowhere to be seen. One of the heads belongs
to Ibrahim. What happened and why? We only learn why towards the end of the
book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The third mystery concerns the title.
For most of the book the president has, of course, been </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein"><span style="color: #bc360a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Saddam Hussein</span></a></span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">. Though he is very much a key player in this book, he is never mentioned
by name. However, to this point his gardens have not been relevant. This is
about to change. Things are not going well for Ibrahim. His wife has cancer and
his daughter is being rebellious. Getting treatment for his wife is expensive
and difficult. With his connections, Tariq gets him a job in Baghdad. The job
involves tending the president’s gardens, which is a fairly easy and very
well-paid job. He gets treatment for his wife and Qisma can go to college and
he can even buy her a car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Things are looking better but then, as
he has done so well, he is promoted. The new job involves better pay, shorter
hours and a free taxi service to and from work. The job, however, is definitely
not as pleasant and easy (… grisly details…). And then the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War"><span style="color: #bc360a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">US-led coalition invades</span></a></span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">More than once in recent times I have
commented on a book I have reviewed that it is grim but this one definitely
comes at or near the top on the grisly scale. The 1</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war"><span style="color: #bc360a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">948 war</span></a></span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War"><span style="color: #bc360a;">Iran-Iraq War</span></a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War"><span style="color: #bc360a;">the
Gulf War</span></a>, the interim period when Saddam sees enemies
everywhere, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War"><span style="color: #bc360a;">the Iraq War</span></a> and the aftermath of that
war all have their horrific stories to tell as seen through the eyes of our
heroes and al-Ramli spares us none of the details of the horrors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">However, what is interesting is seeing
these wars not from the perspective Westerners have seen them in the past,
namely Iraq was all bad but seeing them from the perspective of the ordinary
Iraqi. Our heroes do not like these wars any more than we do, Indeed, they like
them a lot less, as they get wounded and killed or their loved ones do and
their lives are completely disrupted. Like most of us they just want to live
their lives in peace. Al-Ramli moved to Madrid in 1995 and many other Iraqis
went into exile to escape both the wars and Saddam Hussein. You certainly
cannot blame them. This book clearly shows why.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 16.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 16.5pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Publishing history<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">First published in 2012 by Thaqāfah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, Beirut<br />
First published in English 2017 by MacLehose Press<br />
Translated by Luke Leafgren</span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNah7oK2u3IWIa3wWJ41Wopg2k8c3uBzFzFnQelX3NOLEg7UWBOcLOTBCxnkP2cEydpZt4IwYK0RIkrj09YiaRzKM2wNG5Jq5P2frA8v4ixkjuTJuOuZD9ghd_I32D6mXFuzCKTvseym0fhOAyA4bUeHnW90usZGmmFI_vnatwxd-leaL5oAdJRuin=s1249" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="1249" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNah7oK2u3IWIa3wWJ41Wopg2k8c3uBzFzFnQelX3NOLEg7UWBOcLOTBCxnkP2cEydpZt4IwYK0RIkrj09YiaRzKM2wNG5Jq5P2frA8v4ixkjuTJuOuZD9ghd_I32D6mXFuzCKTvseym0fhOAyA4bUeHnW90usZGmmFI_vnatwxd-leaL5oAdJRuin=w400-h246" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.themodernnovel.org/asia/arab/iraq/muhsin-al-ramli/the-presidents-gardens/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">https://www.themodernnovel.org/asia/arab/iraq/muhsin-al-ramli/the-presidents-gardens/</span></a></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-18048041954250003272021-07-05T13:48:00.001-07:002021-11-27T14:52:14.690-08:00Al-Ramli: Los jardines del presidente /Mustapha M-Lamin<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Muhsin Al-Ramli: <i>Los
jardines del presidente</i></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpaoPNuN3jdaQDC0eN7f5jHMvAawgLJ98F0gxRiAuVN5d40-VoFk3fhDwPMHqFwIBz0ctWhNKHEvni0FZ4Bg6J5lr-k_gxifJrXjvJvpD4jnBKS33gw9ZKcqN9BxWcSsbr3R9Gqfy6CY4/s1105/razonyfe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="972" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpaoPNuN3jdaQDC0eN7f5jHMvAawgLJ98F0gxRiAuVN5d40-VoFk3fhDwPMHqFwIBz0ctWhNKHEvni0FZ4Bg6J5lr-k_gxifJrXjvJvpD4jnBKS33gw9ZKcqN9BxWcSsbr3R9Gqfy6CY4/w351-h400/razonyfe.jpg" width="351" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: right;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Por</span><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> Mustapha M-Lamin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Al-Ramli, Muhsin: <i>Los jardines
del presidente.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Alianza, Madrid, 2018. 357 páginas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Traducción de Nehad Bebars. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Comentario realizado por Mustapha
M-Lamin (SJM Valencia).</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">En un país golpeado
por el horror desde hace décadas, entre las agresiones externas que lo
convirtieron en un polvorín crónico, y anteriormente las caprichosas aventuras
belicistas de un megalómano con delirios de grandeza, no sorprende que en medio
de tanta tragedia, terror y violencia pueda emerger con belleza una obra capaz
de retratar todo lo vivido a largo de casi tres décadas por una sociedad
sometida, primero, a los antojos de un tirano y, después, a la codicia de
superpotencias incapaces de renunciar a la intervención en cada rincón del
mundo con tal de mantener, en el ocaso de su trayectoria, un control absoluto
del planeta.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">A esta labor, la de
narrar con inusitada hermosura la crueldad nauseabunda del ser humano, se puso
el autor de la novela Los jardines del presidente, Muhsin Al-Ramli, para
conseguir un retrato crítico, agudo y estremecedor de un país colapsado por la
inestabilidad, violencia y las guerras fratricidas como principal herencia de
la invasión de EE.UU. y sus aliados en el año 2003. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">A lo largo de los
dieciocho capítulos en los que se divide la novela, asistimos a la historia de
tres amigos, Tarek, Abdulá e Ibrahim, nacidos en meses sucesivos del</span><a name="more" style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;"></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;"> año 1959, a quienes el destino deparó diferente suerte.
Nada más comenzar la novela, con una sobrecogedora imagen de cabezas
decapitadas, estremece la carga de crueldad de los ajustes fratricidas, pues
“En un país sin platanares, los habitantes del pueblo se despertaron con el
hallazgo de nueve cajas para transportar plátanos. En cada una de ellas estaba
depositada la cabeza degollada de uno de sus hijos y el documento que lo
identificaba, ya que algunos rostros habían quedado totalmente desfigurados por
la tortura anterior a su decapitación o por la posterior mutilación (…)” (p.
11). Una de esas cabezas era la de Ibrahim y la fecha del hallazgo, Ramadán del
año 2006. La cabeza sin el resto del cuerpo simboliza el desgarro de una nación
condenada a vivir en la violencia, con una hija obligada a emprender una
búsqueda, tal vez inútil por el final abierto de la novela, para intentar
reunir los restos mortales de su padre con la cabeza y darle digna sepultura a
su progenitor, pues ante la disyuntiva de enterrar solamente la cabeza o
aventurarse en una peligrosa investigación para hallar el resto del cuerpo,
opta por la segunda y el narrador aprovecha para retroceder y repasar la
historia de Irak. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Esta es una novela en
la que confluyen muchos géneros. Bélica, o antibélica (a la altura de grandes
novelas como </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Vida y destino</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de Vasili Grossman; </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Los cuatro
jinetes del apocalipsis</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de Blasco Ibáñez; o la más reciente </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Morir
en primavera</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de Ralf Rothmann, con la que guarda varias similitudes
(especialmente el reclutamiento de inocentes), por su retrato de las muchas
guerras vividas por el país, desde las guerras contra la ocupación de
Palestina, en las que participaron los padres de los tres protagonistas,
pasando por la guerra contra Irán, en la que fueron obligados a participar
Abdulá e Ibrahim, donde el primero cayó en un largo cautiverio en manos de los
iraníes (p. 107) durante diecinueve años, y el segundo, víctima del efecto de
los gases químicos, quedó estéril de por vida; la nefasta guerra del golfo de
los años noventa del siglo pasado, a la que fue llamado a filas Ibrahim y en la
que perdió una pierna después de la intervención de los aliados y ver que “la
tierra vomitaba fuego, el cielo llovía fuego” (p. 74); hasta la guerra más
reciente, convertida en enfermedad crónica, con la invasión de Estados Unidos
en 2003. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">También cabe en esta
novela el género social, la crítica a algunos usos y costumbres como, por
ejemplo, el triste asesinato de la madre de Abdulá, discapacitada que lo tuvo
sin ser consciente de ello y fue apedreada hasta la muerte, mientras su
violador no tuvo más castigo que una furibunda pero fugaz paliza paterna (p.
172); o la hipocresía clerical de los lenguaraces de los púlpitos, simbolizada
en Tarek con la conquista de la jovencísima hija de su difunto amigo. Y para
retratar el periodo especial sin guerra ni paz, con el país asfixiado por las
sanciones de Estados Unidos a través de la ONU, emerge otro género como aquel
que fue capaz de alumbrar la literatura hispanoamericana con novelas como </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">La
fiesta del chivo</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de Vargas Llosa; </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Yo, el supremo</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de Roa
Bastos; </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Señor Presidente</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de M. Ángel Asturias; o </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">El
recurso del método</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">, de Alejo Carpentier: las novelas de dictador. Un simple
paseo por los jardines del presidente (plagados de cadáveres de inocentes)
permite apreciar con exactitud el grado de pomposa ostentosidad en el que viven
él, su familia y colaboradores mientras el pueblo apenas puede respirar (p.
223) sumergido en la más absoluta miseria. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">Después de la lectura
de esta novela, que se cierra de manera circular con final abierto, conviene no
perder de vista la producción futura de este autor, pues queda claro que está
llamado a ocupar un lugar significativo no solo en la historia de la literatura
árabe sino también en la universal. Quizás sea un juicio precipitado, pero el
paso del tiempo permitirá saber si mis intuiciones son o no ciertas, por ahora
esta voz promete consolidar un modo de narrar, con valentía para no omitir ni
un solo tema, capaz de estremecer con sus descripciones, perturbar con sus
descripciones y esperanzar con sus reflexiones, como la que emana del personaje
de Abdulá en una escena de la novela: “No entiendo por qué a algunos no les
bastan las ideas que ocupan su mente, sino que, además, se empeñan en poseer
las mentes de los demás” (p. 142). Tarea nuestra será, por tanto, no permitir
que posean las nuestras, especialmente en estos tiempos del barullo cibernético
y los debates estériles acerca de nuestro tiempo.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0bNKjFbkQcYlx58qMhOEEyMVS9b7c61ASr5Xim6hsQcYyOtL7SuTLBqFRO0qDfj15J-CRMcnTa-KX9y_2zCvdPR20BRcec0q7jqR5ofmmGp74uJgiuM6cATsDKzqdDWqdLcCIYWJ-Rs/s1227/raz11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="1227" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0bNKjFbkQcYlx58qMhOEEyMVS9b7c61ASr5Xim6hsQcYyOtL7SuTLBqFRO0qDfj15J-CRMcnTa-KX9y_2zCvdPR20BRcec0q7jqR5ofmmGp74uJgiuM6cATsDKzqdDWqdLcCIYWJ-Rs/w400-h285/raz11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/razonyfe/article/view/13731/12384">https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/razonyfe/article/view/13731/12384</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSeaEAwFwXpB96qDbRSDPygJAOmxpuUyuqUStycwh1-Ks5hqeRRp9WyRYshk901SZyBSwX1ZTdyXXhOlgjeixX-NXH_Y9JRIF9iuqdw552ER8D_2BKDdBpBKoeR33jcpLhaqTDXnPP4k/s836/57645%25D8%25BA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="836" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSeaEAwFwXpB96qDbRSDPygJAOmxpuUyuqUStycwh1-Ks5hqeRRp9WyRYshk901SZyBSwX1ZTdyXXhOlgjeixX-NXH_Y9JRIF9iuqdw552ER8D_2BKDdBpBKoeR33jcpLhaqTDXnPP4k/w400-h281/57645%25D8%25BA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/razonyfe/article/view/13731">https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/razonyfe/article/view/13731</a></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-22396964983935717542021-06-25T13:33:00.000-07:002021-06-25T13:33:16.649-07:00Os Jardins do Presidente, de Muhsin Al-Ramli<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Os Jardins do
Presidente</span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">, de Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: red; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhawu80vc0BhoavEvvikE2Aapcf6fktHmfvdErWVtbeBEO82991WhEdE5w2vyyXZaub398K20VVfE_Vw6REHLf-6WmYqK1vk3e1Gx5zLbR7oIRsG1_shEpxi8731sZGkvslmXYrpvn7nQo/s1462/%25D8%25A8%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AA%25D8%25BA%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%258A%25D8%25A919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1462" data-original-width="1196" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhawu80vc0BhoavEvvikE2Aapcf6fktHmfvdErWVtbeBEO82991WhEdE5w2vyyXZaub398K20VVfE_Vw6REHLf-6WmYqK1vk3e1Gx5zLbR7oIRsG1_shEpxi8731sZGkvslmXYrpvn7nQo/w328-h400/%25D8%25A8%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AA%25D8%25BA%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%258A%25D8%25A919.jpg" width="328" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">CRISTINA MENDONÇA</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #59626b; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Os Jardins do Presidente</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #59626b; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">, publicado pela Topseller, entrou na
longlist do International Prize for Arabic Fiction, conhecido como o «Booker
árabe»<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muhsin Al-Ramli nasceu
em 1967, numa aldeia do norte do Iraque. É romancista, poeta, dramaturgo,
académico e tradutor. <em><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Os Jardins do Presidente</span></b></em>, publicado pela
Topseller, entrou na longlist do International Prize for Arabic Fiction,
conhecido como o «Booker árabe». Vive em Madrid desde 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">«Um romance
extraordinário passado no Iraque de Saddam Hussein, que traz à memória <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Cem Anos de Solidão</span></em> e <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">O Menino de Cabul</span></em>»…
Com esta frase intenta-se seduzir o leitor a entrar neste mundo fabuloso que,
de início, evoca realmente a atmosfera de Macondo ou o imaginário do realismo
mágico latino-americano: veja-se, por exemplo, o caso de Isma’il que em rapaz
cortou a língua de um bode e desde então perde a voz, até que anos depois as
palavras que lhe saem num grito coincidem com o momento em que «reza a história
antiga, (…) uma estranha massa amorfa com um corpo gigante e uma cabeça
minúscula chamada América atravessou os mares e ocupou um país chamado Iraque»
(p. 8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A
primeira frase do romance é, aliás, tão emblemática como o início da obra-prima
de García Márquez: «Num país onde não havia bananas, ao terceiro dia do
Ramadão, a aldeia deparou-se, ao acordar, com nove caixas de bananas, cada qual
contendo a cabeça degolada de um dos seus filhos.» (p. 7). Todavia <em><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Os Jardins do Presidente</span></b></em>,
de Muhsin Al-Ramli, é uma narrativa que rapidamente se distancia de tudo e
ganha vida própria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tariq, Abdullah Kafka e Ibrahim nascem
em 1959, em meses seguidos, e desde logo se tornam inseparáveis. Até que a
guerra contra o Irão deflagra (e dura 8 anos), e Abdullah é preso pelas forças
iranianas em 1982. Em 1990, o Iraque invade o Kuwait. A guerra torna-se o
estado natural das coisas e «quanto mais se adentravam no deserto (…) mais
mergulhavam na guerra» (p. 59). Em 1991, as forças aliadas desencadeiam o
ataque terrestre a partir das areias da Arábia Saudita:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">«O deserto, que se vira abandonado
durante séculos, foi transformado num mar de ferro e fogo. O cenário era nada
menos que apocalíptico, demonstrando o poder que aquela pequena criatura, o
homem, conseguira alcançar, capaz de transformar a face da natureza de forma
aterradora e esmagadora.» (p. 62)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nas primeiras 200
páginas temos uma narrativa intrincada repletos horrores da guerra, mas
sobretudo de histórias que se cruzam. Todas as personagens têm a sua história,
sempre contada na primeira pessoa, como é o caso de Ibrahim que procura deixar
o seu legado à sua filha Qisma (significa <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">destino</span></em>), vendo-a
como a extensão natural da sua história. O romance passa depois a uma segunda
parte, no que parece uma estrutura desarmoniosa, mas conforme prosseguimos
percebemos como se fecha o círculo deste mundo, tanto que o penúltimo capítulo
é um eco do primeiro, voltando à frase de abertura do romance. É quando Ibrahim
se muda para a cidade de Bagdad que o romance ganha outro fôlego. Como
funcionário nos jardins de um dos vários palácios do Presidente, Ibrahim é
supervisionado por Sa’ad, que ao longo de várias páginas, descreve a opulência
dos “palácios do povo”, em descrições hiperbólicas ao estilo dos contos das Mil
e Uma Noites. A única vez em que Ibrahim avista o Presidente no jardim é
justamente quando ele assassina um músico emblemático do país. O próprio nome
de Saddam Hussein, ao jeito do realismo mágico, nunca é mencionado; quando
Qisma dá o nome do líder ao filho, Ibrahim recusa-se terminantemente a chamá-lo
pelo nome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ibrahim é depois promovido de
jardineiro a coveiro, enterrando milhares de corpos sem nome, «vítimas de um
reinado impiedoso de terror», nos jardins do Presidente…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">*(Artigo publicado no Caderno Cultura.Sul de novembro)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCaDhGSjIz5TMgSaSRzQmDN8Z71oCiPyRV1v0dn70vCWF_2evsG_SUeYW6KrdU4pP-PYvcp4gkl4Y6izOoHNs0kaJY9QshXh8FZyiHtrl13BIcU9zfpyLJBmFBTnjgxJ3nInH4L0S8nkM/s960/MuhsinPresitent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="715" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCaDhGSjIz5TMgSaSRzQmDN8Z71oCiPyRV1v0dn70vCWF_2evsG_SUeYW6KrdU4pP-PYvcp4gkl4Y6izOoHNs0kaJY9QshXh8FZyiHtrl13BIcU9zfpyLJBmFBTnjgxJ3nInH4L0S8nkM/w298-h400/MuhsinPresitent.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://postal.pt/papel/2019-11-07-Os-Jardins-do-Presidente-de-Muhsin-Al-Ramli">https://postal.pt/papel/2019-11-07-Os-Jardins-do-Presidente-de-Muhsin-Al-Ramli</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-71358040289109394232021-06-20T16:14:00.001-07:002021-06-20T16:14:52.243-07:00Al-Ghassani: el poeta que vino con el fuego Kirkuk. por: Carlos Villalobos عن أنور الغشاني<p> </p><p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Al-Ghassani: el poeta que vino con
el fuego Kirkuk</span></strong></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75RbBPnQHi6j267Vi85zueoAmEwpT4RjWshV1N23txEf_dAjOGTtnhOGjhEkKHzsJOxCUIPH-kGbertOD52-5Z2ohG6NR2vayS6yOJ8bn1jxSOoSdl5izXcS6KN1AhYWR3m4ucPLRCSk/s1351/%25D9%2583%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D8%25B301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1351" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75RbBPnQHi6j267Vi85zueoAmEwpT4RjWshV1N23txEf_dAjOGTtnhOGjhEkKHzsJOxCUIPH-kGbertOD52-5Z2ohG6NR2vayS6yOJ8bn1jxSOoSdl5izXcS6KN1AhYWR3m4ucPLRCSk/w400-h243/%25D9%2583%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D8%25B301.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p align="right" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;">A</span></em><em><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></em><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Hablaba despacio, con el acento inconfundible de los herederos de
Babilonia y la mirada serena de los que tienen en el espíritu la antigua
sabiduría de los sufíes. Su pelo largo y blanco, la barba tupida y la
espesura de las cejas, lo hacían parecer más bien un mago o una suerte de
alquimista errante.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Confieso que
cuando entré al aula no me pareció creíble que este hombre fuera el profesor
que me daría el curso de Nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación. No sé,
esperaba un informático o un periodista de porte más joven y no ese hombre que
hablaba con dificultad el castellano. ¿De dónde había sacado mi universidad
este docente? Mis estereotipos mordieron el polvo en cuanto nos entregó el
ambicioso programa. Las lecturas eran numerosas y actualizadas. Supe que estaba
frente a un lobo astuto que sabía muy bien cómo poner en jaque a sus jóvenes
alumnos.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Se llamaba Anwar
Al-Ghassani Thair y era un viejo periodista iraquí que había parado en Costa
Rica gracias a su vínculo conyugal con una mujer de origen tico. Se había
graduado en la Universidad de Leipzig, Alemania, como doctor en Periodismo con
énfasis en Ciencias Políticas y como buen descendiente de la genética de Babel,
entre otras lenguas, hablaba árabe, curdo, turcomano, inglés, alemán y español.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">En 1963, mientras
estudiaba pintura en la Universidad de Bagdad fue torturado y estuvo en prisión
durante ocho meses. En 1966 de nuevo fue detenido y privado de sus derechos.
Estas circunstancias lo obligaron a abandonar para siempre su tierra natal. Con
la llegada al poder de Saddan Hussein las posibilidades de retorno se volvieron
prácticamente nulas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Al-Ghassani nunca
regresó a las tierras de su antigua Babilonia. No pudo reencontrarse con su
natal Qalat Salih y tampoco con la famosa Kirkuk de linaje sumerio acadio, la
provincia donde creció. Lo más cerca que estuvo del mundo árabe fue en Argelia,
donde vivió varios años, hasta que en 1984 se radicó definitivamente en América
Latina. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">En 1999, la
Universidad de Costa Rica me contrató como docente. Entonces Anwar dejó de ser
el “profe de tecnologías” y se convirtió en mi colega. Fue un nuevo
privilegio. La relación se transformó en una amistad mediada por la
pasión literaria que nos unía. Cuando hablaba de su obra y me compartía sus
poemas, el fuego eterno de Baba Gurgur le iluminaba el rostro. No había ninguna
duda. Él era la continuación de aquella hoguera de Kirkuk que tiene más de
cuatro mil años y el heredero de la escritura cuneiforme con sus más de cinco
milenios de antigüedad. No en vano, los poetas de Irak bien podrían llenar por
sí solos la enorme biblioteca de Alejandría. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">El 2005 fue para
Al-Ghassani el año de la realización como poeta en el mundo hispano. El
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Costa Rica le dio un lugar como invitado
especial. Luego asistió al más importante de los encuentros literarios de
América Latina: El Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín en Colombia. Lo
invadió la euforia. Comprendió que su nombre de poeta ahora también podría
trascender más allá del Oriente Medio. Atrás quedaron sus poemas en árabe,
alemán e inglés. Ahora la lengua del poeta era el castellano, la última que le
dio Babel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Junto con poetas
iraquíes como Moayad al-Rawi, Fadhilal-Azzawi, Sorgon Bulus, Al-Ghassani y
Salah Faik, figura como uno de los fundadores el Grupo literario de Kirkuk. La
agrupación surgió en los años 50 y es considerada como una de los más
influyentes en la poesía árabe actual. Además de lo estético, se suma la
persecución que tuvieron sus integrantes. Fueron tachados de rebeldes y
reprimidos por el sistema político. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Pero la
desbandada de los escritores iraquíes no solo tocó a los jóvenes que provenían
de Kirkuk. Poetas de diferentes generaciones también tuvieron que emigrar. Es
el caso de Abdal-Wahab al-Bayati (1926-1999) quien falleció en Siria. Otros
escritores no consiguieron escapar a tiempo, como es el caso Hassan Mutlak
(1961-1990), quien falleció sentenciado a la horca por el régimen de Hussein.
Su hermano Muhsin Al-Ramli (1967), también escritor, actualmente vive exiliado
en España y es un destacado hispanista que se ha ocupado de divulgar la obra no
solo de Mutlak sino de otros autores de su país y del mundo árabe.</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5MzK8D02CU62qx-XhhJ4HilLrUT_wuNup8IYHSsEf_agfO4ikuCPlCko1-rNqkNnf6RoQqyltyXQMmRM50LIMehiLxIF5lCt1Uxy2VzDoT7-4sYUTbRPafTs7JSIX8-DzEr0nDWDTqc/s2048/AlGhassani+Muhsin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="2048" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5MzK8D02CU62qx-XhhJ4HilLrUT_wuNup8IYHSsEf_agfO4ikuCPlCko1-rNqkNnf6RoQqyltyXQMmRM50LIMehiLxIF5lCt1Uxy2VzDoT7-4sYUTbRPafTs7JSIX8-DzEr0nDWDTqc/w400-h209/AlGhassani+Muhsin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Muhsin Al-Ramli visitó Costa Rica en
el año 2013 en el marco del Festival Internación de poesía. Le hubiera gustado
que Anwar estuviera vivo, pero el poeta rebelde de Kirkuk había fallecido el 25
de julio de 2009. Al menos tuvo la oportunidad de honrar su memoria a la orilla
de la tumba.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>-----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>*Publicado en <i>Quira
Medios</i>, en junio 2021, edición 61 Bogotá <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://www.quira-medios.com/al-ghassani/">https://www.quira-medios.com/al-ghassani/</a></span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3_9g1DDcsJ_VMJFkGLc0RxlV98VqzTebxb-s4HV9edsfk3HG1-_ifNNUaohbkSzfhAdidljcMSxiOw1jvnf_gGb8ocsvgw8y7TAhrJqOdVXPLUDerTMe1hNYgqMvBUrNhBsq1e-fkyH8/s2048/Villalobos+y++Muhsin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3_9g1DDcsJ_VMJFkGLc0RxlV98VqzTebxb-s4HV9edsfk3HG1-_ifNNUaohbkSzfhAdidljcMSxiOw1jvnf_gGb8ocsvgw8y7TAhrJqOdVXPLUDerTMe1hNYgqMvBUrNhBsq1e-fkyH8/w400-h300/Villalobos+y++Muhsin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carlos Villalobos y Muhsin Al-Ramli</span><p></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-16360173662576367292021-06-20T13:14:00.002-07:002021-06-20T13:14:22.020-07:00Os Jardins do Presidente, de Muhsin Al-Ramli<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Os Jardins do
Presidente</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">de Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMtZBRgWnPffArsOkWW-iKj8EM3TrO07xzilBMEJLf8vDF0NL_0imbA-637Zz3du6nMfQua5EUHHhyphenhyphenJaLra6ucSP91peLS-qiwjPBdfGhiV_IrDMonOl6_73ZvlYCDOY-fXAvwgJu27U/s1322/Os+Jardins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1322" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMtZBRgWnPffArsOkWW-iKj8EM3TrO07xzilBMEJLf8vDF0NL_0imbA-637Zz3du6nMfQua5EUHHhyphenhyphenJaLra6ucSP91peLS-qiwjPBdfGhiV_IrDMonOl6_73ZvlYCDOY-fXAvwgJu27U/w400-h275/Os+Jardins.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Palavras Sublinhadas <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">20/6/2021 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Muhsin Al-Ramli nasceu em 1967, numa aldeia do norte do
Iraque. É romancista, poeta, dramaturgo, académico e tradutor. <i>Os Jardins do
Presidente</i>, publicado pela Topseller, entrou na longlist do International
Prize for Arabic Fiction, conhecido como o «Booker árabe». Vive em Madrid desde
1995. «Um romance extraordinário passado no Iraque de Saddam Hussein, que traz
à memória Cem Anos de Solidão e O Menino de Cabul»… Com esta frase intenta-se
seduzir o leitor a entrar neste mundo fabuloso que, de início, evoca realmente
a atmosfera de Macondo ou o imaginário do realismo mágico latino-americano:
veja-se, por exemplo, o caso de Isma’il que em rapaz cortou a língua de um bode
e desde então perde a voz, até que anos depois as palavras que lhe saem num
grito coincidem com o momento em que «reza a história antiga, (…) uma estranha
massa amorfa com um corpo gigante e uma cabeça minúscula chamada América
atravessou os mares e ocupou um país chamado Iraque» (p. 8) A primeira frase do
romance é, aliás, tão emblemática como o início da obra-prima de García
Márquez: «Num país onde não havia bananas, ao terceiro dia do Ramadão, a aldeia
deparou-se, ao acordar, com nove caixas de bananas, cada qual contendo a cabeça
degolada de um dos seus filhos.» (p. 7). Todavia Os Jardins do Presidente, de
Muhsin Al-Ramli, é uma narrativa que rapidamente se distancia de tudo e ganha
vida própria. Tariq, Abdullah Kafka e Ibrahim nascem em 1959, em meses
seguidos, e desde logo se tornam inseparáveis. Até que a guerra contra o Irão
deflagra (e dura 8 anos), e Abdullah é preso pelas forças iranianas em 1982. Em
1990, o Iraque invade o Kuwait. A guerra torna-se o estado natural das coisas e
«quanto mais se adentravam no deserto (…) mais mergulhavam na guerra» (p. 59).
Em 1991, as forças aliadas desencadeiam o ataque terrestre a partir das areias
da Arábia Saudita: «O deserto, que se vira abandonado durante séculos, foi
transformado num mar de ferro e fogo. O cenário era nada menos que
apocalíptico, demonstrando o poder que aquela pequena criatura, o homem,
conseguira alcançar, capaz de transformar a face da natureza de forma
aterradora e esmagadora.» (p. 62) Nas primeiras 200 páginas temos uma narrativa
intrincada repletos horrores da guerra, mas sobretudo de histórias que se
cruzam. Todas as personagens têm a sua história, sempre contada na primeira
pessoa, como é o caso de Ibrahim que procura deixar o seu legado à sua filha
Qisma (significa destino), vendo-a como a extensão natural da sua história. O
romance passa depois a uma segunda parte, no que parece uma estrutura
desarmoniosa, mas conforme prosseguimos percebemos como se fecha o círculo
deste mundo, tanto que o penúltimo capítulo é um eco do primeiro, voltando à
frase de abertura do romance. É quando Ibrahim se muda para a cidade de Bagdad
que o romance ganha outro fôlego. Como funcionário nos jardins de um dos vários
palácios do Presidente, Ibrahim é supervisionado por Sa’ad, que ao longo de
várias páginas, descreve a opulência dos “palácios do povo”, em descrições
hiperbólicas ao estilo dos contos das Mil e Uma Noites. A única vez em que
Ibrahim avista o Presidente no jardim é justamente quando ele assassina um
músico emblemático do país. O próprio nome de Saddam Hussein, ao jeito do
realismo mágico, nunca é mencionado; quando Qisma dá o nome do líder ao filho,
Ibrahim recusase terminantemente a chamá-lo pelo nome. Ibrahim é depois
promovido de jardineiro a coveiro, enterrando milhares de corpos sem nome,
«vítimas de um reinado impiedoso de terror», nos jardins do Presidente…</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>---------------------------------------------------</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"><a href="http://palavrassublinhadas.com/os-jardins-do-presidente-muhsin-al-ramli/">http://palavrassublinhadas.com/os-jardins-do-presidente-muhsin-al-ramli/</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcTrjWtvqroV6728QalGZB5sYrMwCZj-PlCoi2I2PIsaBQMrk54xC2sDmJCpfJbgA72CMaHYB4LAjjAsFlANKN0nEQ0mqK23m4VcfK1TQnH3bPMzeRt04j1Rueac_R5h9cGERdd51MCE/s1563/%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AA%25D8%25BA%25D8%25A7%25D9%258456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1563" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcTrjWtvqroV6728QalGZB5sYrMwCZj-PlCoi2I2PIsaBQMrk54xC2sDmJCpfJbgA72CMaHYB4LAjjAsFlANKN0nEQ0mqK23m4VcfK1TQnH3bPMzeRt04j1Rueac_R5h9cGERdd51MCE/w400-h213/%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AA%25D8%25BA%25D8%25A7%25D9%258456.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-27214120073706074202021-04-26T17:27:00.001-07:002021-05-01T12:20:02.971-07:00The many exceptional Arab-Spanish voices in Spain<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 45pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.6pt; margin: 6.6pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 22pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Arab American Heritage Month<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 45pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.6pt; margin: 6.6pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mXenNnF2wdGhCVfdwrWWAhSxEJFN1RiQx2s0rcnB0yu-uC3ADzEyDFCxuBHo-drnjMihBOKmu4gHGTy5HfKr2mN-kuatMoHhfVE3yQoAJXIZgKPhRxEWpMmYxkB6q8uVdHTXsxocWlg/s1080/ArabSpanish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1080" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mXenNnF2wdGhCVfdwrWWAhSxEJFN1RiQx2s0rcnB0yu-uC3ADzEyDFCxuBHo-drnjMihBOKmu4gHGTy5HfKr2mN-kuatMoHhfVE3yQoAJXIZgKPhRxEWpMmYxkB6q8uVdHTXsxocWlg/w400-h309/ArabSpanish.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 11.05pt; margin: 11.05pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">This Arab American
Heritage Month in the U.S., we’re highlighting a few of <b>the many exceptional
Arab-Spanish voices in Spain</b>. With nearly one million Spanish residents
born in Arab countries, Arab immigrants and the Spanish-born generations that
have followed them have made an indelible impact on our country.</span></p><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 11.05pt; margin: 11.05pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://blog.spainintheusa.org/arab-american-heritage-month-1c748bef1f7c">https://blog.spainintheusa.org/arab-american-heritage-month-1c748bef1f7c</a><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 15.0pt; margin: 15pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Mina el Hammani</span></b><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV42ytZ6sMaCUkarEH9CWfrkX4vcsikbi71lXVA7HnVbxi33vktxE0PJ1TUBBhunGI2d6eimVKwFPu3OJ7gg8tDIHc6-DE6VyFGsxYgH4A9E2TyCzUD7eXJjdSI9Q1dBlF9LoJrZ03rJA/s2048/1_bExRdjn_o6fP9zIabT8Wwg.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV42ytZ6sMaCUkarEH9CWfrkX4vcsikbi71lXVA7HnVbxi33vktxE0PJ1TUBBhunGI2d6eimVKwFPu3OJ7gg8tDIHc6-DE6VyFGsxYgH4A9E2TyCzUD7eXJjdSI9Q1dBlF9LoJrZ03rJA/w400-h266/1_bExRdjn_o6fP9zIabT8Wwg.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Born in 1993 in Madrid to a Moroccan family, Spanish
actress Mina el Hammani is best known for her roles as Nadia in the Netflix
hit, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/us-es/title/80200942"><i>Elite</i></a><i>,</i> and
Elvira in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boarding-School-Las-Cumbres-Season/dp/B08VCV6R5J"><i>The
Boarding School: Las Cumbres</i></a><i> </i>on Amazon Prime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Interview (with English, Spanish,
and Arabic subtitles) between Mina El Hammani and Saufeeya Goodson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">El Hammani decided at seven years old that she wanted
to be an actress, but struggled to find someone with whom she could identify on
screen at that time. Nadia, her character in <i>Elite, </i>is the
role she says she had been waiting for her entire life, allowing her to play
someone in whom she can see herself reflected and who will give girls of Arab
heritage in Spain, and around the world, a familiar face on TV and a sense of
representation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 23.4pt; margin: 23.4pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Ara Malikian</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2i26p4kCxbMeb41n1vANo81qjv0BrAIr-rGaydJO2__TjvR_dzap608PMeMOpU8mF-YyzS_VlvpUnJBn8Epzto4IbTZfaRVxnCYPTu6EOtvGE5lTH83s_tMDyuoJFpQvRgKDDSwttlfs/s1200/1_UVuzd7-5oo3CusPyBF9wxQ.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2i26p4kCxbMeb41n1vANo81qjv0BrAIr-rGaydJO2__TjvR_dzap608PMeMOpU8mF-YyzS_VlvpUnJBn8Epzto4IbTZfaRVxnCYPTu6EOtvGE5lTH83s_tMDyuoJFpQvRgKDDSwttlfs/w400-h266/1_UVuzd7-5oo3CusPyBF9wxQ.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Photo Credit: <a href="https://aramalikian.com/directo/">aramalikian.com/directo/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Born in Lebanon to an Armenian family, and living in
Spain since 1998, world-renowned violinist Ara Malikian has lived in a
multicultural environment his entire life. Growing up during the Lebanese Civil
War, his talent, dedication, and passion for music were clear from a young age.
The War may have forced him to study in air-raid shelters, but it also showed him
the strength his music could have in lifting spirits and bringing hope to its
listeners. At 15, he received a scholarship to study at the Hochschule für
Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, from the German Ministry of Culture,
and so his time in Europe began.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Malikian may not be the image you expect when you
think of a violinist, with his tattooed ams and mid-performance leaps. He says
that earlier in his career, he tried to “fit in” in the classical music scene,
and later realized that he needed to be himself and created his own path. Now,
his music is a representation of his own mixed heritage and the places he’s
been along the way, taking inspiration from his Armenian background, as well as
his Middle Eastern and Mediterranean upbringing and his adopted Spanish home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 23.4pt; margin: 23.4pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Hiba Abouk</span></b><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGD_ZztdTlgdnOYU1M7PwEis8yQ6CG1ZvNc7mXIuRVX94IgKJV5tEhhZfefyD5XC2IhPEXYKmIJXVsG5TwJhzsbpHz1aiBnyuhQE2X6SGr4MjXBeL41lKd__s9OKa5WbCaGO9s7d3HY8/s2048/1_CGGubPjQ7Ko9ftbR583Qnw.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1367" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGD_ZztdTlgdnOYU1M7PwEis8yQ6CG1ZvNc7mXIuRVX94IgKJV5tEhhZfefyD5XC2IhPEXYKmIJXVsG5TwJhzsbpHz1aiBnyuhQE2X6SGr4MjXBeL41lKd__s9OKa5WbCaGO9s7d3HY8/w268-h400/1_CGGubPjQ7Ko9ftbR583Qnw.jpeg" width="268" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Photo by Guillem Medina, 2017 Sitges
Film Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Spanish actress Hiba Abouk’s career skyrocketed after
her breakout role of Fátima in <i>El Príncipe</i> (<i>The Prince</i>),
an action-crime drama that takes place in the Príncipe Alfonso neighborhood of
the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta, near the border with Morocco. Mina el
Hammani (see first section), who played the character of Nur in the second
season of <i>El Príncipe</i>, said the show, with a majority of Arab
actors in lead roles, and specifically Abouk, let her not only feel represented
on TV, but showed her that there were Arab women in Spain that came before her
and fought for a place as actresses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Born and raised in Madrid to Tunisian parents, Abouk
cites her multicultural upbringing as part of her inspiration for becoming an
actress:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 33pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 21.0pt; margin: 21pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #757575; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">“When I was 16 or 17 years old, I discovered that
there were so many stories to tell, especially being an Arab woman. I wanted to
talk about the clash of cultures I experienced as a teenager. Things happened
in my house and in the street, but they were two separate worlds. I always
dreamed of being an actress so I could play women like me” (<a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/13/icon/1520955743_587281.html">2018,
El País</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 18.5pt; margin: 18.5pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Najat el Hachmi</span></b><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb8iwddEaCGOzRTX7nNEDGyrgrTXLX2j4gE_ZuIowEjEZXAPEvYCbuMehM1a9w2lqVmkx7eCSfU7e7b3uC9ZlZkjwUiLZCieimL9C63CEkIg1hRV3QKK6an1xbWzFF-UtVH9UrVQfScU8/s1024/1_GDwbAtF5Gx9qnDCpV-EoQw.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb8iwddEaCGOzRTX7nNEDGyrgrTXLX2j4gE_ZuIowEjEZXAPEvYCbuMehM1a9w2lqVmkx7eCSfU7e7b3uC9ZlZkjwUiLZCieimL9C63CEkIg1hRV3QKK6an1xbWzFF-UtVH9UrVQfScU8/w400-h266/1_GDwbAtF5Gx9qnDCpV-EoQw.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Photo credit: <a href="http://tresculturas.org/actividad/siempre-hemos-querido-a-najat-el-hachmi/">Fundación
Tres Culturas</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">At age 8, Morrocan-Spanish author Najat el Hachmi
moved from Nador, Morocco, to Vic, a city about an hour north of Barcelona
where she would spend the rest of her childhood. She started writing at age 11;
what began as simply as a mode of entertainment would soon transform into a way
for her to channel her thoughts about her dual-identity, and to bring her two
homes closer together. Identity and the immigrant experience in Spain, and
Catolonia more specifically, would go on to be a central theme in her work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">El Hachmi studied Arabic Philology at the University
of Barcelona and, in 2008, she earned the Ramon Llull Award for her book <i>El
último patriarca (The Last Patriarch). </i>In 2014, she published her
autobiography, <i>Jo també sóc catalana (I, Too, am Catalan / Yo también
soy catalana)</i>, and in 2020, she received the 77th Nadal Award, the oldest
literary prize in Spain, for <i>El lunes nos querrán (On Monday They’ll
Want Us), </i>a novel about the importance of women taking control of
their own lives and facing gender, class, and ethnic battles to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 23.4pt; margin: 23.4pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2goSK8WFWRm0Wy3FsxQ51k7D-ky0PtZEjTvytMaz6HgrYDkwrbKLcJ_PT4Yo9G3uclrD00JD3cttZAq9F_t02ZUF1Hi88TUERIV6KV4Nq0h1Ww6VRZEwnzWhelGfKBSoWZgek60g5IPc/s940/muhsin.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="940" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2goSK8WFWRm0Wy3FsxQ51k7D-ky0PtZEjTvytMaz6HgrYDkwrbKLcJ_PT4Yo9G3uclrD00JD3cttZAq9F_t02ZUF1Hi88TUERIV6KV4Nq0h1Ww6VRZEwnzWhelGfKBSoWZgek60g5IPc/w400-h225/muhsin.jpeg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Photo credit: <a href="http://alramliarabic.blogspot.com/">alramliarabic.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Iraqi writer, translator, and academic Muhsin Al-Ramli
has lived in Spain since 1995. He left Iraq for Jordan after his brother, poet
Hassan Mutlak, was executed in 1990. Working as a journalist in Jordan, he
decided to learn Spanish over English, drawn to the language’s great
literature. This allowed him to later study in Spain, obtaining his PhD in
Philosophy from the <a href="https://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/en/home.htm">Autonomous
University of Madrid</a> in 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">While earning his PhD and working as a translator, Dr.
al-Ramli established <i>Alwah</i>, one of the first Arab magazines in
Madrid, in 1997, wanting to give his brother the voice that was taken away from
him. Now, much of his work serves as a link between his two homes, having
translated countless Spanish classics into Arabic, and vice versa. His
novels, <a href="https://www.arabicfiction.org/en/The%20President's%20Gardens"><i>The
President’s Gardens</i></a><i> </i>and<i> </i><a href="https://www.arabicfiction.org/en/Fingers%20of%20Dates"><i>Dates on My
Fingers</i></a><i>, </i>were long-listed for the International Prize for
Arabic Fiction in 2010 and 2013, and Yasmeen Hanoosh’s English translation of
his novel, <i>Scattered Crumbs,</i> won the 2003 <a href="https://news.uark.edu/articles/12742/university-of-arkansas-press-announces-translation-award">University
of Arkansas Press’ Arabic Translation Award</a>. Al-Ramli is also a professor
at Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 23.4pt; margin: 23.4pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #292929; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Magdy Martínez Solimán</span></b><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYy1RoZzEW4yIBDEuQEhW4qwI3C4j7Adb_DBwsknHEKYy6DaH0vM2jtsMLV12GMTbIm1hr5EWySIz2po2Ow-gQnlizR2lIE1llTESvsNTgUNZC4zrsm0QHecX43kqZrh0MbxMi6Gkb1E/s2048/1_Ugbe9fQX_4BFNfQ7NoSuNA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYy1RoZzEW4yIBDEuQEhW4qwI3C4j7Adb_DBwsknHEKYy6DaH0vM2jtsMLV12GMTbIm1hr5EWySIz2po2Ow-gQnlizR2lIE1llTESvsNTgUNZC4zrsm0QHecX43kqZrh0MbxMi6Gkb1E/w400-h266/1_Ugbe9fQX_4BFNfQ7NoSuNA.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Magdy Martínez Solimán was named Director of <a href="https://www.aecid.es/EN/aecid">AECID</a>, the Spanish Agency for
International Development Cooperation, in July of 2021. Born in Madrid to an
Egyptian mother, Martínez Solimán has had a<b> </b>decades-long
international career that has taken him throughout the world in his work in
high offices of the United Nations. From 2014 to 2017 he was the UN <a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2014/sga1509.doc.htm">Assistant Secretary
General</a> under Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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us on social media at @SpainInTheUSA: </span></i><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="http://twitter.com/SpainInTheUSA"><i>Twitter</i></a><i>, </i><a href="http://instagram.com/spainintheusa"><i>Instagram</i></a><i>, </i><a href="http://facebook.com/SpainInTheUSA"><i>Facebook</i></a><i>, </i><a href="http://youtube.com/c/EmbassyofSpainWashington"><i>YouTube</i></a><i>,
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under the umbrella of </i><a href="http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Portal/en/Paginas/inicio.aspx"><i>Spain’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation</i></a><i> and
the strategic center for Spain’s relations with the Arab world.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><i><b>ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ</b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24.0pt; margin: 24pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia",serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6u7_fh36UpyIAQPrqvTAKWrtUFfKVbjPVbo0Hfg_BIod-UBuDp8do6CKJRaI2IWTF-8whErm3bWp9JtGkcNmozluM-LKp2EjE-hg1SnQ4QifMqYmS_Ed5lhAqRZdNzI4IR-ikSbKagC0/s1694/muhsinramli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="1694" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6u7_fh36UpyIAQPrqvTAKWrtUFfKVbjPVbo0Hfg_BIod-UBuDp8do6CKJRaI2IWTF-8whErm3bWp9JtGkcNmozluM-LKp2EjE-hg1SnQ4QifMqYmS_Ed5lhAqRZdNzI4IR-ikSbKagC0/w400-h341/muhsinramli.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFRgYt4rNAYoypLMuC4StPIaTf96iBqqVRjnjcYUirw-wB5qZDp5eKO-kAzPz9w8h5ZaG_HkOyNDloQaf3nz55VjoqGuSytsGHsg8Dvqj7JXeJqYlxfwDboqZfDafk1UjQUY2kuqbR3M/s1254/Screenshot_20210427-013937_Instagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFRgYt4rNAYoypLMuC4StPIaTf96iBqqVRjnjcYUirw-wB5qZDp5eKO-kAzPz9w8h5ZaG_HkOyNDloQaf3nz55VjoqGuSytsGHsg8Dvqj7JXeJqYlxfwDboqZfDafk1UjQUY2kuqbR3M/w345-h400/Screenshot_20210427-013937_Instagram.jpg" width="345" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmsDfcEfZx393E_9E_7yO2r3TO-nn42nBJ9WH1x8jh7VpBu6SSrEGZ5BvHLexQO2k0KrlUbXUNy2nbR7_v1wbnQbxpgLogHh2RyaZjI6Qof8wIY4JRX_5q2WhGRF2JrKczECVPR7MzOg/s1129/5437%25D9%2584.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1129" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmsDfcEfZx393E_9E_7yO2r3TO-nn42nBJ9WH1x8jh7VpBu6SSrEGZ5BvHLexQO2k0KrlUbXUNy2nbR7_v1wbnQbxpgLogHh2RyaZjI6Qof8wIY4JRX_5q2WhGRF2JrKczECVPR7MzOg/w400-h335/5437%25D9%2584.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-87436864081589749512021-03-11T16:43:00.002-08:002021-03-11T16:43:37.672-08:00Longlisted interview with Muhsin Al-Ramli<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 27.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Longlisted
interview with <b>Muhsin Al-Ramli<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 27.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_WEbQBsGIi7uYvROwV6_oP_jTXoxlcpOcEr1l00lrl7Gep7_OESiSie3uUtmWp_ea5M5z1BriEwzpkDiTONG69tNX4AxwKANfc4VwzwXOLRCSlyrdMQL_unsBq5athz2VxAscEUwLAc/s953/564.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="953" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_WEbQBsGIi7uYvROwV6_oP_jTXoxlcpOcEr1l00lrl7Gep7_OESiSie3uUtmWp_ea5M5z1BriEwzpkDiTONG69tNX4AxwKANfc4VwzwXOLRCSlyrdMQL_unsBq5athz2VxAscEUwLAc/w400-h217/564.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
<h2 align="right" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 16.5pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%; text-transform: uppercase;">09/03/2021<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 27.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://arabicfiction.org/en/node/1810">https://arabicfiction.org/en/node/1810</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">*When did you begin writing <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Daughter
of the Tigris</span></em> and where did the inspiration for it come from?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I began writing it in 2016. It
wasn’t really a question of inspiration, but more a result of my long-term
interest in the turbulent, unstable situation in Iraq since it was invaded and
occupied: the destruction and daily, horrific killing which have happened as a
result and under the auspices of this occupation. Amidst this destruction, I
have witnessed the strength and bravery of Iraqi women and their constant
efforts to do something.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p dir="RTL" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: rtl; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; unicode-bidi: embed; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">*Did the novel take long to write
and where were you when you finished it?<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">It took two years of continuous
work, research, writing and revision, because the subject has to do with a
complicated and very eventful period in the history of Iraq. I finished writing
it in Madrid, where I live. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">*How have readers and critics
received it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The reception has exceeded my
expectations, especially since the book was printed and distributed in
difficult circumstances because of the coronavirus. Transportation was not
working and legal isolation kept being imposed, yet despite that it quickly
reached many different parts of Iraq and several bookshops in Arab countries.
It was discussed at literary events and many excellent articles of literary
criticism were written about it by Iraqis and Arabs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">*What is your next literary
project after this novel?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Coronavirus has spread, taking
from us many friends, colleagues and loved ones, and I was afraid it would take
me too, so I started to work on the artistic and literary corpus which my late
brother Hassan Mutlak left, in order to publish or re-publish it. I revised,
re-arranged and edited it. So far, I have completed work on six books and there
are two left. After finishing those, if I live, I will return to work on a
novel which I had begun and stopped.</span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-68958240909922503732021-02-20T16:01:00.004-08:002021-02-20T16:04:40.469-08:00¡Dejad que Irak vea la luna!/ ALBERTO MRTEH<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="AR-SA" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; font-size: 26.5pt; text-align: center;">¡Dejad que Irak vea la luna!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #6d6d6d; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEWIc4Cl-M5shOhh6yqKPG8Iyb1poJaA19dt9JWk7jxmk77AyCOYWlCfiCWJk13dpDwMC3R3rDy1KntuI6PrCfi-sHN_G3cYrbowv6YjJjWmNWVHBI76PW2xcPB9gcXijHsrWmWOHPa0/s1659/LosJardines21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1659" data-original-width="1433" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEWIc4Cl-M5shOhh6yqKPG8Iyb1poJaA19dt9JWk7jxmk77AyCOYWlCfiCWJk13dpDwMC3R3rDy1KntuI6PrCfi-sHN_G3cYrbowv6YjJjWmNWVHBI76PW2xcPB9gcXijHsrWmWOHPa0/w345-h400/LosJardines21.jpg" width="345" /></a><b style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></b></div>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0b5394; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;"><b>Alberto Mrteh</b></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">“El
poeta se ocupa del mal. Su papel consiste en ver la belleza que en él reside”<br />
</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Jean Genet<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">En un país sin platanares, los habitantes
del pueblo se despertaron con el hallazgo de nueve cajas para transportar
plátanos. En cada una de ellas estaban depositados la cabeza de uno de sus
hijos y el documento que lo identificaba…</span></i><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Cuando <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b> se enteró de la muerte de sus
familiares y vecinos de semejante forma, esperó encontrar los detalles de tal
atrocidad en los periódicos que lee por internet desde su exilio
madrileño. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Pero esos muertos nunca aparecieron en la
prensa</span></b>. Al dolor de la pérdida se unió una rabia insoportable que le
recordaba que lo no escrito es como si no existiera. Y así se vio empujado a
escribir él mismo esta historia, que comienza con este arranque tenebroso y
deslumbrante al tiempo. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Muhsin Al-Ramli quería gritar y
su alarido es <a href="https://www.zendalibros.com/los-jardines-del-presidente-muhsin-al-ramli/"><i><span style="color: #b51623; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Los jardines del
presidente</span></i></a></span></b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Esos
cuerpos decapitados son el reflejo de un Irak desmembrado por las guerras, la
tiranía, el embargo y la ocupación. Nos cuenta así Al-Ramli la Historia del
país a través de las historias de seres humanos a los que acompañamos en sus
sufrimientos. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">El individuo desaparece en el grupo ya que las
situaciones anormales despiertan el lado salvaje del hombre</span></b>. Se
suceden entonces mártires, prisioneros y perdidos, pero también viudas y
huérfanos, descubriéndonos además el impacto que la guerra genera lejos del
campo de batalla.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgut0S6eVJmEaZUhOWqfHNUgg9t3U7_Ep6S_ievWLHrG_ZIMr8bwQBjQ23POBg28_lcJFtXTYMMlN3Ym2paA5l84lRjVd9lzOlkz1SOC4lAo5CLj5vsKEwctvZV7W_i02h7abMQyEDWTF0/s599/768e6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="599" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgut0S6eVJmEaZUhOWqfHNUgg9t3U7_Ep6S_ievWLHrG_ZIMr8bwQBjQ23POBg28_lcJFtXTYMMlN3Ym2paA5l84lRjVd9lzOlkz1SOC4lAo5CLj5vsKEwctvZV7W_i02h7abMQyEDWTF0/w400-h251/768e6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Los
jardines del presidente</span></i><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> es
sin embargo un libro de contrastes que trenza el horror con la belleza e
incluso con el humor. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Frente a la tragedia brilla
como la luna llena un hermoso canto a la amistad y a la familia</span></b>. Los
tres amigos protagonistas, hijos de la grieta de la tierra, aprenden a valorar
cualquier abrazo fraternal y, cuando todo se desmorona, la familia es lo que se
mantiene y nos ayuda a permanecer en pie. En la búsqueda de la belleza dentro
del propio mal, Al-Ramli descubre a Ibrahim, empeñado en dar sepultura digna a
los asesinados por Su Excelencia y en tomar nota de quiénes eran (<b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">lo que no se escribe no existe</span></b>) en un acto valiente,
prácticamente heroico, realizado por un personaje que parecía derrotado por su
suerte y su destino.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Hay
en la novela un cervantino uso de los nombres, donde los apodos nos descubren
la personalidad de los personajes y además sorprende con un rocambolesco juego
de coincidencias y confusiones que permite salvar la vida de Ibrahim y
dulcificar una muerte al confundir la luna con su querido Qamar, luna en árabe.
Y, por encima de estos aliviadores milagros, está <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">la firme voluntad de no nombrar a Su Excelencia para no contaminar
la novela con su presencia</span></b>.</span><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 15pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUYqj_GBz1Rzfvfji2NOGtPhnMCdqspGgsNnCOxSh5KPIeBXZC4Kv0GdLcDzDh0BKvQSHyXnw3TTHDlm7qYyAnXXYr37i0Nt30TAuXmc8vjbXfktc01Rs0YC_bcriuCX_1YQeCFpPcyQ/s512/irq.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="512" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUYqj_GBz1Rzfvfji2NOGtPhnMCdqspGgsNnCOxSh5KPIeBXZC4Kv0GdLcDzDh0BKvQSHyXnw3TTHDlm7qYyAnXXYr37i0Nt30TAuXmc8vjbXfktc01Rs0YC_bcriuCX_1YQeCFpPcyQ/w400-h210/irq.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Dice
Al-Ramli que la vanguardia de una cultura es la imaginación, pero que la
literatura iraquí apenas está relatando sus propias vivencias. Sin embargo, nos
permite vislumbrar algunos destellos del ingenio de los iraquíes, primero con
los diferentes rumores sobre el paradero de Yalal y luego con las creativas
predicciones de las pitonisas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Ibrahim
descabezado es Irak desmembrado, y la voluntad final de encontrar su cuerpo es
la voluntad del pueblo por recomponer el país. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Ibrahim
es Irak e Ibrahim quedará en la memoria de la gente a la que conoció</span></b>.
Como buen discípulo de Sherezade y con la cómplice traducción de Nehad Bebars,
el autor nos deja siempre con la miel en los labios para seguir escuchando el
relato de sus seres queridos, muertos que no aparecieron en la prensa, pero que
quedarán en nuestra memoria gracias a <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Los jardines del presidente</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">—————————————<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Autor:</span></b><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "Noto Serif",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> Muhsin
Al-Ramli. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Traductor:</span></b> Nehad Bebars. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Título:</span></b> <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Los jardines del presidente</span></i>. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Editorial:</span></b> Alianza. <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Venta: </span></b><a href="https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/hasta-pronto-pues-y-hasta-siempre_978-84-17830-89-2" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #b51623; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Todos tus libros</span></a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZzIacg" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #b51623; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Amazon</span></a>, <a href="http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=70431&a=2898777&g=17376810&url=https://www.fnac.es/a6192702/Muhsin-Al-Ramli-Los-jardines-del-presidente#st=los%20jardines%20del%20pr&ct=Todos%C2%A0los%C2%A0productos&t=c"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #b51623; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Fnac</span></a> y <a href="https://afiliadoscasadellibro.uinterbox.com/tracking/clk?act=573&gel=3245&pub=3383&org=205&fw_isbn=9788491812760" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #b51623; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Casa del Libro</span></a>.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #070707; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Noto Serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.zendalibros.com/dejad-que-irak-vea-la-luna/">https://www.zendalibros.com/dejad-que-irak-vea-la-luna/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrZGwww5l3nEl0i312LIoJ29wFmWnMnnu0ahBEoiY0ClV9xbmxHSowk_ADmLtTb1beRZQfjHXXkAN47uuPsWAgCpLPeql3vqmup1BXmT4TOSEo5uwksOat_zRRsw9AmbRmHd9o6t7LmY/s996/Alberto21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="996" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrZGwww5l3nEl0i312LIoJ29wFmWnMnnu0ahBEoiY0ClV9xbmxHSowk_ADmLtTb1beRZQfjHXXkAN47uuPsWAgCpLPeql3vqmup1BXmT4TOSEo5uwksOat_zRRsw9AmbRmHd9o6t7LmY/w400-h245/Alberto21.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-66864863768704146202021-02-11T15:14:00.002-08:002021-02-11T15:14:35.621-08:00El arte como salvación/LAILA MUHARRAM<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 5.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #548235; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">El arte como
salvación</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #686868; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6aP-Zj6qGso8niixF1bWhXm43focEMi6vq27v6XgDmgVyxe60Egl5tccmEUPkaQDwa_UIsh6dDZRHuZEyIDhmQVA0303XRtd4-6AgtiazadqZcxo8gL7G1PHCbSqHBdjVhstyPX22uuE/s1172/21v2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1166" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6aP-Zj6qGso8niixF1bWhXm43focEMi6vq27v6XgDmgVyxe60Egl5tccmEUPkaQDwa_UIsh6dDZRHuZEyIDhmQVA0303XRtd4-6AgtiazadqZcxo8gL7G1PHCbSqHBdjVhstyPX22uuE/w398-h400/21v2.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><strong><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">LAILA MUHARRAM</span></strong><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“A la ira hay que
escucharla. Es una voz, un grito, un ruego, una exigencia. A la ira hay que
respetarla. Porque la ira es un mapa. La ira nos dice que ya no nos podemos
permitir nuestra antigua vida. Nos dice que la antigua vida se muere y que
estamos renaciendo. (…) El arte abre los armarios, airea los sótanos y las
buhardillas. El arte trae curación.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Recordaba
estas palabras de Julia Cameron, de su libro El camino del artista, mientras
escuchaba a Muhsin Al-Ramli, iraquí exiliado en España desde 1995. Tuve la
oportunidad de compartir espacio virtual con este escritor, poeta y traductor
tan excepcional gracias al recién inaugurado Club de lectura Separata Árabe,
creado por Silvia Rubio Taberné y Maribel González Martínez (podéis encontrarlo
en Facebook, es gratuito previa aceptación de las fundadoras).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Cada 30 días,
cuatro libros se proponen como potencial lectura a través de una encuesta en
redes sociales. El que suma más puntos gana. Los jardines del presidente, uno
de los libros más conocidos de Al-Ramli, salió elegido en diciembre y nos ha
acompañado a todos los miembros del club durante las Navidades, el cambio de
año, Filomena y la tercera ola.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Hacía
muchísimo que no me enganchaba tanto a un libro. Y aunque todo lo que se cuenta
es oscuro y desgarrador, echaba de menos adentrarme en profundidad en el
universo creativo de un buen escritor de Oriente Próximo. Al-Ramli supera todas
las expectativas. Lo mejor del club, sin duda, fue compartir reflexiones con el
propio autor, que ha participado en los encuentros digitales que se celebran
todos los viernes a las 19:00 (excepto el tercer viernes, que sale la encuesta
para la siguiente lectura).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Cuando le
preguntaron por qué cuenta el final del protagonista desde la primera página
(encuentran su cabeza en una caja de bananas), Muhsen lo tiene claro: “Eso
mismo les ocurrió a unos parientes en Irak. Me rebelé ante la idea de que
semejante barbarie no saliera en las noticias, ni siquiera en la prensa local.
Por eso, lo primero que escribí de la novela fue ese párrafo, contando el final
al principio. Sabía que era arriesgado, pero me dejé llevar por la ira de ese
momento”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Ése era un
recurso muy habitual de Gabriel García Márquez, un referente para Al-Ramli.
“Cuando leí Cien años de soledad decidí que aprendería español solo para poder
leer ese libro en su idioma original”. Licenciado en Filología Española por la
Universidad de Bagdad en 1989, también es doctor en Filología Española por la
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid desde el 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Es además
hermano del escritor Hassan Mutlak. Considerado por algunos intelectuales como
el “Lorca iraquí”, fue ahorcado por el régimen de Sadam en 1990 por haber
participado en un intento de golpe de estado.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Teniendo en
cuenta su biografía, cuando se le pregunta qué estímulo le impulsa a seguir
escribiendo a pesar de la tragedia, responde rápido: “El mejor acompañante del
ser humano es la cultura, es el arte. Estoy convencido de que, si enseñáramos
más arte, no habría tantas guerras en el mundo. A través del arte, compartimos
el peso del dolor. Sin duda, a mí la literatura me ha salvado”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Que
las palabras de Muhsin os acompañen en estos tiempos tan difíciles que nos toca
vivir.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt;">-----------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt;"><a href="https://www.distritovillaverde.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/292.febrero.21-1.pdf">https://www.distritovillaverde.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/292.febrero.21-1.pdf</a></span></p>Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-84898075784312698942021-02-11T14:51:00.003-08:002021-02-11T14:57:42.691-08:00lectura dedicada a Los jardines del presidente de Muhsin Al-Ramli /Separata Árabe <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lectura dedicada a</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #686868; font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5pt;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">Los jardines del presidente</span></i></b><span style="color: #686868;"> de </span><b><span style="color: #990000;">Muhsin
Al-Ramli</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5pt;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5pt;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCU1EZ4UGfLlUh5nunuOuPP6zKZKCKcrNMbDbi7VIRBlUG3vKM6b9clVM0sT-foRxfzw5rlHyjIXoAzClwBfh500C35FjcEJQHRoOZd9fM3k_ffFOMV0qEkDVoNeUhWs7VB79WhiM_ISA/s680/IMBa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="572" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCU1EZ4UGfLlUh5nunuOuPP6zKZKCKcrNMbDbi7VIRBlUG3vKM6b9clVM0sT-foRxfzw5rlHyjIXoAzClwBfh500C35FjcEJQHRoOZd9fM3k_ffFOMV0qEkDVoNeUhWs7VB79WhiM_ISA/w336-h400/IMBa.jpg" width="336" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Separata Árabe </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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FIL Guadalajara<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbPfTHgjq6IG9auEapGnNuQgjEz0SsMNAUq6vwqq4Z2zunqnhvU2WthuuPbX7cmj4jJI3FdehInvJnuPjd1TEYgAbXdNNH8HI_YHz9Y94bQq4fi0NtfvtWhGu_4H-B11_l3a78wrDeJ4/s680/Muhsin+Maruan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="680" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbPfTHgjq6IG9auEapGnNuQgjEz0SsMNAUq6vwqq4Z2zunqnhvU2WthuuPbX7cmj4jJI3FdehInvJnuPjd1TEYgAbXdNNH8HI_YHz9Y94bQq4fi0NtfvtWhGu_4H-B11_l3a78wrDeJ4/w400-h210/Muhsin+Maruan.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> en el </span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">SALÓN DE LA <b>POESÍA</b></span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Internacional del Libro de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2020. <b>México<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Escritor,
poeta, traductor y académico. Eligió el camino del exilio a partir de 1993, y
vive en Madrid desde 1995. Doctorado en filología española, por la Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM, 2003) por su tesis <i>Las huellas de la cultura
islámica en el Quijote</i>. Actualmente es profesor en la Saint Louis
University, Madrid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Es una
figura destacada en la escena cultural árabe. La mayoría de sus obras están
traducidas a varios idiomas; participó en diversos festivales, congresos y
eventos culturales en el mundo, entre los que destacan, dos veces en México. Es
hermano del escritor Hassan Mutlak (considerado como el “Lorca iraquí”, y quien
fue ahorcado por el régimen dictatorial en 1990). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">En
España cofundó la revista literaria árabe </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alwah</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Entre
sus libros sobresalen: <i>Regalo del siglo que viene</i> (Cuentos, 1995); <i>En
busca de un corazón vivo</i> (Teatro, 1997); <i>Adiós, primos</i> (Novela,
2000), su versión inglesa Scattered Crumbs fue Premio ATA de la Universidad de
Arkansas, 2002; <i>Las felices noches del bombardeo</i> (Relatos, 2003); <i>Todos
somos viudos de las respuestas</i> (Poesía, 2005); <i>Dedos de dátiles</i>
(Novela, 2008), finalista al Premio Internacional Booker de la novela árabe
(IPAF 2010). <i>Dormida entre soldados</i> (Poesía, 2011); <i>Los jardines del
presidente</i> (Novela, 2012), premio PEN Translates Award, 2016 y finalista al
(IPAF 2013); <i>La loba del amor y de los libros</i> (Novela, 2015), finalista
al Premio Zayed del Libro, 2016; <i>Hijos y zapatos</i> (Novela, 2018); <i>La
hija del Tigris</i> (Novela, 2020) por sus cuentos obtuvo los premios: de los
Escritores Jóvenes, Bagdad, 1988 y 1989, y de la Revista Oriente Medio,
Londres, 1996. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Participa:
Muhsin Al-Ramli <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">Presenta:
Maruan Soto Antaki <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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tu ejemplar aquí: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://www.gonvill.com.mx/autor/al-ramli-muhsin/">https://www.gonvill.com.mx/autor/al-ramli-muhsin/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">O aquí: <a href="https://www.todostuslibros.com/autor/al-ramli-muhsin">https://www.todostuslibros.com/autor/al-ramli-muhsin</a></span></p>
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FIL Guadalajara y Acción Cultura Española <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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material no puede ser utilizado, reproducido, almacenado o transmitido, total o
parcialmente, sin consentimiento previo por escrito de la Feria Internacional
del Libro de Guadalajara. © Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara 2020</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; padding: 0cm;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR7O-zBtgs4Ku1Ck9bfGpOoOWJcyZa6nxHD9Vg9Wu6qh3A2KZngqy3CycmVgYmdi8-qEhTzE17Aj9gxjjEljEWdINaD4LNS6eL4CjYSBRQCeLFf-vcXWZ7_4293GB0HlCBXVFmpr9IPgI/s593/filguad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="593" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR7O-zBtgs4Ku1Ck9bfGpOoOWJcyZa6nxHD9Vg9Wu6qh3A2KZngqy3CycmVgYmdi8-qEhTzE17Aj9gxjjEljEWdINaD4LNS6eL4CjYSBRQCeLFf-vcXWZ7_4293GB0HlCBXVFmpr9IPgI/w400-h334/filguad.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">DAUGHTER OF THE TIGRIS</span></h1><div class="title-header__bylines" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="title-header__byline" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;">by <a class="title-header__author" href="https://www.maclehosepress.com/contributor/muhsin-al-ramli/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Muhsin Al-Ramli</span></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #212529; font-family: "Simplified Arabic",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a href="https://www.maclehosepress.com/titles/muhsin-al-ramli/daughter-of-the-tigris/9780857056832/">https://www.maclehosepress.com/titles/muhsin-al-ramli/daughter-of-the-tigris/9780857056832/</a><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="title-header__byline" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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& Alibhai-Brown: Social media lacks credibility</span></b></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSprh8Fb1faoSOj-Uz21pKNH-OMiWCy9j8nG1fYiB3tXHSN9B5k1AccuDiUiaeDIkx7hS27SZq3CzkoiOR8_TqJ1W6uPo7CX2eAr0Uu8pP2n60rNwfaWVAbPXqCw55vF0rl2_deu2Mvq8/s680/MuhsinSharjah.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSprh8Fb1faoSOj-Uz21pKNH-OMiWCy9j8nG1fYiB3tXHSN9B5k1AccuDiUiaeDIkx7hS27SZq3CzkoiOR8_TqJ1W6uPo7CX2eAr0Uu8pP2n60rNwfaWVAbPXqCw55vF0rl2_deu2Mvq8/w400-h400/MuhsinSharjah.png" width="400" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;">| </span><span class="updated"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Nov 16, 2020</span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> |</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>
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<p style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>“The outbreak of the
coronavirus pandemic and the social isolation it has induced across societies
is driving home the truth that amidst all the challenges impacting the world
today, it is arts, culture and books that we can count on as our allies,”
remarked Muhsin Al-Ramli, an Iraqi writer, poet, academic and translator, at a
virtual cultural session held at the 39th Sharjah International Book Fair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">“So,
read more books and find beauty in the world around you,” he urged the SIBF
audience while speaking at a session discussing the ‘Influence of the Modern
World on the Writing of Today’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">Al
Ramli was joined by journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the ‘Sharjah
Reads’ virtual platform and the session was moderated by Eman Al Yousef who
raised the topic of a credibility crisis impacting both journalism and
literature today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">“Before
the advent of social media, we could rely on just a few newspapers for credible
information. But today, there is so much disinformation as the sources of
‘news’ have increased, and we often do not know what the truth is,” said Al
Ramli, whose novels Dates on My Fingers and The President’s Gardens were
longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. “I believe this is a
great opportunity for powerful journalism to rise to the fore and re-establish
its credentials as the real source of verified information.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">He
added: “In journalism, credibility is judged based on the accuracy of reporting
while in literature, the humanitarian ethos has been a constant and this lends
it greater credibility.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">Alibhai-Brown,
a print journalist for the past 35 years and who also has experience in both
radio and television journalism, said: “Truth has become very slippery today. Social
media is a root cause of distortions that we no longer know what is true or
false. There are many who still believe the pandemic is a lie.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">“What
I find troubling is the rise of ‘selfie media’ where young people go all out on
virtual platforms with no understanding of what might happen,” added
Alibhai-Brown, author of Ladies Who Punch. “The commercial exploitation of
these young people who are turned into influencers on platforms that follow no
rules or regulations is a disturbing development. Social media has given
everyone a voice and extreme views are often amplified here.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">Muhsin
Al-Ramli begged to differ. He said: “The positivity and negativity of social
media stems from the way we use them. The discussions and sharing of ideas that
once happened in physical cafes has now moved online. The strength of the
individual comes from being part of the larger group, whether in a virtual or
physical space.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">She
added: “I have so much faith in the young people of today – they relate better
to those who are different from them; they don’t see differences in the way
their parents or grandparents did; so, I think after the hard times we are
going through now, something new and civilised will come out of this.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 115%; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans",serif;">“Economics and politics are creating deep divides amongst
societies; we need to revitalise efforts to boost power of arts and culture to
instill love and acceptance of others,” Al-Ramli concluded.</span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 115%; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: "Open Sans"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Open Sans";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWI15zvj6bARcMLi6-S3rfHRk0EZo0GMs2T9Nm8b2Ehdh-JHE8MFwWTjSMjijAiVl7hTqB-FVtmySIe6Z_HYYeTpbAuq15ReZeODM3yzFWfhPOM19fsbR4zO9tiCzqoFxJzpnKRvYbXcc/s1589/1%25D8%25B4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1589" data-original-width="962" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWI15zvj6bARcMLi6-S3rfHRk0EZo0GMs2T9Nm8b2Ehdh-JHE8MFwWTjSMjijAiVl7hTqB-FVtmySIe6Z_HYYeTpbAuq15ReZeODM3yzFWfhPOM19fsbR4zO9tiCzqoFxJzpnKRvYbXcc/w242-h400/1%25D8%25B4.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><p></p>
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jardines del presidente</i>” de Muhsin Al-Ramli, autor nacido en 1967en Irak,
país del que usualmente sólo sabemos que ahí estuvo Sadam Hussein.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pues justamente, por culpa de Sadam el autor
vive en España desde 1995. Así que no es extraño que la sombra del dictador
recorra este libro, sin ser nombrado, mientras conocemos la vida de tres amigos
desde su infancia: Ibrahim, Tarek y Abdulá.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Como es fácil adivinar, porque de iraquí no
tengo ni un pelo y en la vida he ido, la obra me expuso a un mundo desconocido
en muchos sentidos respecto a ciertas costumbres o modos de afrontar la vida,
pero por otra, me acercó a los iraquíes de carne y hueso</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A ellos que sólo he visto en las pantallas,
sin voz, agrupados, movidos por otros, incluso, como enemigos porque la lejanía
y el desconocimiento los hacen distantes y ajenos, de pronto los sentí cercanos
en “<i>Los jardines del presidente</i>”.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“<i>Los jardines del presidente</i>” me
descubrió que son tan sensibles, tan amorosos, tan religiosos, tan descreídos,
tan solidarios, tan enojones como cualquiera en cualquier parte. Sobre todo,
tan vulnerables a las decisiones de otros, de los indiferentes gobernantes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Acompañé a los tres amigos que tienen
diferentes antecedentes familiares, diferentes historias de amor, y diferentes
formas de ganarse la vida a lo largo de varias décadas. Amistad que llega a
trascender a las siguientes generaciones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">El autor logró que sintiera la angustia y
dolor que cada uno va enfrentando en distintos momentos mientras trataba de
descubrir el misterio detrás de la muerte de uno de ellos. Misterio que es
también el misterio mismo de Irak.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">La intriga por ir atando cabos hasta entender
por qué el libro comienza donde comienza, me hacía devorar página tras página;
pero a la vez, en ciertos pasajes me detenía como para contemplar el panorama.
La elección del título cobró sentido en esa contemplación.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">El autor, además, me parece que tiene la
maestría de contener sus propios sentimientos, los que los acontecimientos en
su patria le deben haber suscitado y me dejó vivirlos a través de los ojos de
sus personajes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Las razones para leerla son muchas: conocer
más de una nación tan lejana, quedar atrapado en una narrativa que fluye entre
lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario, entre lo terrenal y lo espiritual, compartir
los lazos de amistad inquebrantable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Si eres de los que les interesa los premios
para animarte, “<i>Los jardines del presidente</i>” fue publicada en árabe en
2012 y has sido reconocida internacionalmente desde entonces: fue finalista del
IPAF, un premio para libros en árabe y ganó el English Pen Award.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F5F8FA; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ya lo saben aquí hay una opción de lectura:
Muhsin Al-Ramli “<i>Los jardines del presidente</i>” de Alianza Literaria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Muhsin Al-Ramlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15067753433080314395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-698455684309165384.post-71197796191102388102019-08-26T15:49:00.000-07:002019-08-26T15:49:17.563-07:00La maté porque la amaba/ Muhsin Al-Ramli<br />
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de: <b>Nehad Bebars</b></span></span><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: "Simplified Arabic";">Encontramos su cuerpo en el patio. Eran las cinco y media
de la madrugada, y los gritos de su madre resonaron por toda la antigua casa
bagdadí del barrio de Al-Fadl. Era Qamar, la joven más bella de todo el
vecindario. Ahora su cuerpo yacía inerte, los brazos y las piernas abiertos, y su
cabello exuberante enmarcaba su rostro como una luna oscura. Desde el balcón
del segundo piso, donde estábamos, Qamar parecía como si estuviera crucificada
allí en el suelo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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