Kingdom of the Butterfly

How does the Arab world face its severe problems and crises and its apparent and hidden wars that became evident strongly at the beginning of the twenty-first century, while it is unprepared for them amid crushing dictatorships and ambiguous revolutions? Maria did not choose exile to northern cities and forgetting her land out of her own desire. Yama's sister did not drown in virtual isolation longing for that. Their brother Ryan did not end up in drugs by his own will. Their father Zubair or Zorba, the global medical expert, did not go toward the isolation of fear and death willingly, before the mafia of medicines stole his life. Mother Farija or Virginia did not go toward the isolation of madness and death among her books out of her own desire. This family did not choose tragic endings and harsh fates, but rather the isolation imposed on them by the silent war that followed the civil war, where the burning fires do not go out but hide beneath the ashes, waiting for their witnessed madness. Everyone fears everyone, and everyone dreams of revenge from everyone, and everyone is lurking for everyone. Yama's isolation with Facebook, jazz music, and waiting for her virtual friend, Faust, is nothing but a new hiding inside the broken self, but who knows? The butterflies that do not break in the season of death grow certain of life.