The signing of the book (Deir Ezzor .. Hurricane in the siege period)

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The Worker Hall in Deir Ezzor hosted the signing ceremony of the book “Deir Ezzor… The Hurricane in the Siege” by Dr. Ghada Kattawi Al Hamour in the presence of a group of literary figures.

The ceremony, which was held in cooperation with the Deir ez-Zor branch of the Arab Writers Union, included interventions on the contents of the book and documented the stage of the siege of the city of Deir ez-Zor by ISIS terrorist organization and the steadfastness of the city and its army, and the phase of breaking the siege and victory.

Al-Hammour pointed out that her memories of a historical stage experienced by the governorate wanted to convey the image of that stage, both for the way of life and return to the use of primitive tools to secure the daily necessities or rituals practiced by the people during the events and the state of social cohesion and cooperation to face Lack of food and drinking water to stand by the Syrian Arab Army, which has stood up in defense of the city until victory and break the siege.

The researcher Zubair Sultan, head of Deir Ezzor branch of the Union of Arab Writers that the human son of his environment and can embody the events he lives through words documenting the feelings he is going through during the events, especially abnormal ones, explaining that the author Hamour was able to reflect the feelings that she experienced during the days The siege of Deir Ezzor city with prose texts loaded with a mixture of feelings of pain, nostalgia, patience and steadfastness to the pride and pride of victory achieved by the men of the Syrian Arab Army to break the siege.

In turn, the Director of Culture in Deir Ezzor pointed out that the book came to document an important stage of the lives of Deir Ezzor, a phase of siege in which many writers talked about in a way that touches reality, calling on all those interested in cultural and artistic affairs to work on the completion of literary and artistic works documenting what It passed by Deir Ezzor during the siege.

It is noteworthy that the book is the first work of the writer and contains 34 prose texts and is located in 130 pages of medium pieces.