The stories of the chalk bird

Book name: Tales of the Chalk Bird Author: Ahmed Ezz Al-Arab Publisher: Al-Mahrousa Number of pages: 266 Book classification: Novel Summary of the book: "When Ahmed Ezz Al-Arab held the flying chalk finger, he held the Rosetta Stone, and held his own mode of expression: calligraphy and drawing. He learned to express himself with chalk lines on the classroom blackboard, so that the teacher understood his inner secrets and what he wanted to say. The child Ahmed grew up, and the chalk finger turned into a pen. With the fewest lines and simplest ones, Ahmed Ezz Al-Arab expresses the most complex topics. I knew Ahmed Ezz Al-Arab in university, and I knew him through caricatures in different newspapers, and I knew him in 'Al-Fann Midan'. He is the artist I knew alongside the dear Bahjat Othman 'BahajiGo', the same one who takes us in this book on a long journey. But with the same magical chalk finger: fewer words here, fewer lines and simpler. Ahmed Ezz Al-Arab's book is a painter's summary of our world in half a century."