The experience of the documentary novel of war by the journalist, Riyad Ahmed, with the visions of critics and poets

Damascus-SANA

The literary experience of documenting the battles waged by the Syrian Arab Army in the face of terrorism for the journalist Riad Ahmed found her way to the Damascene cultural movement through a literary seminar and a signing ceremony for two of his novels held by the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh.

The two novels, Mountains of the Sun and the War of the Summits, single out their chapters for those battles that our army men fought in the mountains of the Syrian coast in the face of terrorist organizations and mercenaries recruited by the Turkish regime from different parts of the world and provided them with advanced weapons, but its plots were shattered in front of the rock of steadfastness of the sons of Syria.

In his evaluation of Ahmad’s novel production, especially the novel The War of the Summits, critic Hamid Al-Abed found that this work is a documentary or documentary novel with distinction and a pure and honest picture of the legendary steadfastness of a small group of members of our valiant army and the allied forces that were able to write with their steadfastness a national epic whose effects will remain immortal through the narration of a group of Daily and real events using different narrative techniques from his presentation of parallel texts and a fluid language rich in vocabulary.

While the poet Amal Al-Manawer saw that the novel The War of the Summits joins the group of works that monitor the war on Syria to become a document about what happened in part of our country and reflects the sacrifices that were poured on this land and brings us back to a metaphorical meaning that our country is the summit of unparalleled status, importance and position.

As for the poet Muhammad Khaled al-Khidr, who moderated the symposium, he considered that the writer Ahmed appears in these two novels as a real observer watching what is happening and one of the heroes of the work and his narrator attends in the ego form, noting that the author sheds light on the exploits of our army during the war, which reflects “a national and literary position that transcends others who did not present for such an act in dealing with the terrorist war on Syria.”

In his response to the critical opinions, he explained that his literary experience derives from his work as a war correspondent in many locations during the war years and his standing on the condition of the fighters and their steadfastness and his desire to present it in a literary dress to us and to the generations that will come after us, expressing his determination to continue this journey after he issued a number A research book.

Ahmed signed at the end of the event, to which the journalist Zainab Shahoud presented his two novels to the audience.

Shatha Hammoud