Wings' beating - the story of cities, exile, and departure

Published by Mediterra Publications. Italy, the book "Knocking Wings, the Biography of Cities, Diasporas, and Departure" by the well-known poet, novelist, and journalist Amjad Nasser, in a new and expanded edition. And about the book, Dr. Sabri Hafez says that the book records a long experience with exile, but at the same time, it records the experience of the poet's wing-beating in the space of Arab and personal transformations together, and the transition from the space of geographical exile to the wilderness of intellectual exile. It is at a level of discourse where the narrative text is, the narrator's self is the subject of the narration and the focus of its interest, even if it seems occupied with itself, with what is general and existential. It is a confession of a personal self and an individual vision more than an examination of a subject or a study of a phenomenon or issue. Therefore, it begins by leaving the cradle of childhood, and the warmth of the first brotherhood and friendships, and starts from the firm early youth conviction in seeking the role, and collective and national salvation together. ... From the book There are cities that do not know sidewalk cafes, London is one of them, but not now. This was true about two decades ago, when migrants did not form an overwhelming phenomenon in the St. James Palace capital ... or the City of Fog, as ready stereotypes like to describe it. A pub is a British café, their lounge, and a place for social meetings and passing time, not a café. And this is an interior facility par excellence, gloomy, with the smell of beer, in addition to being filled with cigarette and cigar smoke, when smoking was allowed in public places. This inward retreat and gloom suit, as I have observed, the general English mood, which quickly lightens, with rapid alcohol doses, from its heaviness and gloom, turning into friendliness or ... violence. But London has now become a city of sidewalk cafes. A city that consumes perhaps as much coffee as it did tea, its beverage that had no rival until recently. Migrants have largely changed the ways of living and the mood of this city, but still, when we talk about places frequented by British intellectuals, and they have a history and stories there, we are often talking about pubs, not cafes.