Latakia-SANA
Forever Beyond is a collection of short stories by the writer Kinaina Diab, through which she heads for the first time to the adult world, after she went through a long career in children's literature and translated literature.
The group, signed by Diab, in the midst of a literary and cultural presence in the activities hall in Dar al-Assad in Latakia, tells about the female “the child, the daughter, the wife and the mother,” her pain and dreams in stories drawn from reality mixed with imagination within a narrative framework that enters the worlds of the characters and their inner selves to illuminate their dark sides.
Diab clarifies in a statement to SANA reporter that the group, although it is directed mainly to adults, but it calls for parents to take care of their children through topics dealing with general societal issues that affect women in particular.
Although the writer is attached to the world of the child, she is keen not to be molded into a single literary style so that her output varies between children's literature, the translator and the short story, as she is currently preparing a poetry collection.
In the critical readings that accompanied the group’s signature, the writer Hoda Wassouf saw that Diab writes in a poetic language mixed with realism that gives the characters and topics human tenderness and honesty that represents the most important characteristic in the characteristics of human literature, considering that the group’s stories have a lot of courage and the ability to reveal and dive into the memory of the characters to dig up the distant past And review the psychological wounds residing in the self.
Writer and critic Atef Saqr saw that the writer decided to take on artistic and literary challenges and made her contribution in the field of the short story to add its impact and leave thought, achievement and texts that may last through her readers into the distant future.
The storyteller and novelist Salwa Ibrahim found that the writer entered the depths of the women and spoke about them honestly, indicating that the stories of the group were woven with a coherent plot and poetic language in a smooth style that the eye reads and the memory responds to without bothering to make the reader think that each story is an entry into a novel because of the suspense and logical coherence it carries.
Dr. Adnan Baylouna referred to the group that monitors a reality experienced by the writer in the stages of her life and translated it in the form of stories through which she addressed the concerns of society, considering that the writer writes our pain, our hopes and our concerns with everything that can relate to our identity as the sons of this society.
The collection, issued by Dar Al-Ghanim for Culture, contains 17 stories in 127 pages of medium size.
It is noteworthy that the writer Kinaina Diab, born in Latakia in 1948, graduated from Damascus University in 1972 in English and translation, holds a degree in media, and is a member of the Arab Writers Union. and sentimental poems.
Fatima Nasser