The new novel (breaking news), by the writer Dr. Nidal Al-Saleh, deals with the unfair war against Syria, especially the terrorism that Aleppo has been subjected to, which destroyed two thirds of the ancient historical city.
The novel narrates, through the story of two young men, an engineer and a university professor, who were brought together in a military unit to remove mines, the history of the war against Syria, especially what happened to the city of Aleppo because of terrorism, where terrorist organizations have wreaked death, theft and vandalism in the eastern half of the city, and the western half suffered from the shells of their hatred, so people lost the reassurance in addition to their hectic efforts to prevent food and water from reaching to the people of Aleppo.
Through the personality of the fighter, Engineer Ahmed, the author highlighted the story of Aleppo during the war years and invested with clear competence the biography of the poet Al-Mutanabbi, closely related to the miraculous concept that prevails between real and imaginative to express the impact of the war on the city of Aleppo and the harsh lives of its people due to terrorism.
This novel is published by Dar Alan , publishers and distributors. It is written in two hundred pages of medium pieces. It is the third for Al-Saleh after his two novels “Embers of the Dead” and “Confinement of Blood” and the 25th book in his literary and critical literature series.
Nidal Al-Saleh is a writer and critic, born in Aleppo in 1956. He holds a doctorate in Modern Literary Criticism, a member of the Arab Writers Union, a teacher of modern literary criticism and the theory of literature at the Faculty of arts, University of Aleppo.
He received a number of appreciation certificates from various Arab cultural institutions. He contributed to the editing of a number of Arab encyclopedias about narrative creativity in Syria. He won a number of literary awards at the local and Arab levels.
He has many works in the field of story, novel, and literary criticism, including “Incomplete Verbs”, Dead Embers”, and the legendary tendency in the contemporary Arab novel.
Amal Farhat