Signing a number of books within the activities of the third Syrian Book Fair at the Assad Library

Damascus (ST) – Within the activities of the third Syrian Book Fair at the Assad Library, a number of male and female writers signed their books in various pavilions that included different social, intellectual, and emotional topics.

The head of the Syrian Publishers Union, Haitham Al-Hafez, stated that the topics of the books and publications that were signed varied and included all issues that serve the homeland and develop the human being in different literary genres in addition to translation and children’s books.

Writer Nadia Ibrahim, who signed the novel “Yesterday’s Nightmares” in the Dar Saba pavilion, said: “Literature has a close relationship with the events that occur, so I decided to write about the war that took place in our beloved Syria; that unjust war whose chapters I lived through like other ordinary people, and  tasted its pains, tragedies and sorrows”.

Ibrahim noted that her novel revolves around the autobiography of a woman who experienced the bitterness of displacement, homelessness and fear with her family, leaving their home to be plundered, in addition to many complex relationships between people who forcibly left their homes after armed terrorist groups and foreigners stormed into them.

Poet Kholoud Karimo also signed her poetry collection “Revolution of Love” at the Arab Writers Union pavilion, in which she addressed various emotional, sentimental and human issues in a balanced style that combined authenticity and modernity.

The supervisor of the Arab Writers Union pavilion, writer Ziad Al-Soudah, indicated that the books included in the pavilion focused on protecting identity and belonging, at very reasonable prices.

Najla Khoury