Under the sun of the morning

Ibrahim Nasrallah works with sincerity and faith in the authenticity, value, and necessity of what he produces. His work is vital in reviving Palestine — history, geography, spirit, and hope — through his creative language, place, time, and form. He immerses deeply into the world of writing and always seeks to renew his tools towards a more refined expressive style in poetry and narrative. He also revives his cinematic culture to achieve this creative convergence between the art of writing and the art of cinema. Ibrahim Nasrallah holds an important creative value in the field of novel achievement, with distinguished experiences monitored by many Arab critics concerned with narrative, especially his epic experience in the Palestinian satire, which includes novels such as The Birds of Caution, The Erased Child, Olive Trees of the Streets, Safe Weddings, Under the Morning Sun, and The Time of White Horses. The reader, while reading Nasrallah’s novels, does not feel he is merely an observer but part of an event characterized by its spontaneity, as if it is happening right now, in a way that the reader first encounters and belongs to his vision, his space, and his universe as a novelist — an almost definitive belonging. This is manifested through aesthetics that emerge from the coat of experience rather than being imposed upon it, with the poet’s spirit remaining present and active deep within the narrative without the dominance of poetry over the novelist, as might happen when working with both genres together. Author: Ibrahim Nasrallah Number of pages: 144