Al-Hasakah-SANA
The realistic tendency and depiction of lived reality took over the contents of the stories delivered by a number of storytellers in Al-Hasakah Governorate as part of a literary meeting hosted by the Arab Cultural Center in the city.
The meeting, which was held by the Safsaf Al-Khabour Cultural Association in cooperation with the branch of the Arab Writers Union and the Directorate of Culture, included story readings whose contents were similar by touching on topics imposed by the conditions experienced by the Syrian people as a result of the terrorist war, especially the topics of internal and external alienation and the living reality, and depicting daily life observations of the people of Al-Hasakah city.
The meeting began with a story (photos) by Huda Younan, in which she embodied the state of self-alienation of an old woman who was abandoned by her family, loved ones and relatives who left the homeland to continue living memories of the past and nostalgia for him by flipping an old photo album about them and her old neighborhood and her warm Arab house, which she had to leave and seek refuge in. A small house in a suburb of the city of Hasaka.
Ibrahim Khalaf’s “Hasakawi Feast to Drink the Same Pain” embodied an illustration of the state of internal alienation experienced by some writers, as the storyteller had similar faces to the people of the city in an atmosphere filled with turmoil of feelings among them as a result of the current circumstances, while the excerpts of very short stories by the storyteller Afra Obeid were closer to poetic thoughts that overcame them Philosophy of love and conscience for people and places.
The meeting concluded with the story (Prayer for the Memory of Water) by Muhammad Baqi Muhammad, in which he deals with the state of alienation and the suffering of the hero of the story who stands on one of the beaches of the state of New Zealand, to take him longing for his homeland and to his hometown in one of the villages of the countryside of Hasakah, and to increase his sickness, age and inability to Adaptation to the new country.
Ahmed Al-Hussein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Safsaf Al-Khabour Association, indicated that the meeting included the presentation of the story experiences of a number of the governorate’s creators who read different texts united by the conditions of the current reality, based on the function of literature in depicting life in a creative and aesthetic form.
Nizar Hassan