Freedom Apartment

A novel by Dr. Ghazi Al Gosaibi, was banned for a period from circulation in Saudi Arabia, tells the story of a group of young men with different orientations and ideas living together in Cairo during their university studies there. The novel details the state of intellectual currents among Arab youth during the turbulent period of Arab history from 1948 to 1967. The novel achieved widespread popularity and multiple editions, and it was allowed to be sold in Saudi Arabia after being previously banned. In the apartment of freedom, the symbol roams... characters emerge from their names... and the apartment of freedom from its place... and events from the angles of its crisis and sacrifice. The apartment of freedom becomes a place for some spot... and the characters are beings without fixed identities, capable of taking any name, and events can occur at any time, and the apartment is any country... Despite all that, Al Gosaibi wanted it to be the apartment of freedom that carries its content in its title... It is the freedom in whose atmosphere the events took place... the freedom of those who thirsted for it... To what extent did Al Gosaibi succeed in freeing them to discover how well they understood this freedom through exploiting it?!! And exploiting them?!! The apartment of freedom... an intellectual space in which Al Gosaibi moves from romance and politics to that rich cultural and artistic atmosphere. Where he lives with the protagonist who tries to write the story and belong to the literary people, with his observations extending from the salon of Al Aqad to Naguib Mahfouz’s session, passing through Anis Mansour... A broad horizon for abundant ideas... and a wandering imagination in history, politics, human relations, spiritual and physical, and everything... A poetic novelist weaving events with the poet’s sensibility and the language of the skilled novelist to highlight something or critique a certain reality... That is Al Gosaibi as he is... His narrative weaves a space for re-evaluating accounts.