South Jeddah east Al-Mawsim

It is a novel by the Saudi writer Amr Al-Ameri (published in 2017), and it is a work that relies on the technique of time travel to depict a panoramic picture of social and geographical changes in the Tihama region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, specifically the city of Jeddah and its southern suburbs, over nearly half a century. The narrative framework The events of the novel revolve around two main characters: Mohsen (the narrator): the young boy who recalls (or the time) fifty years ago. Hussein (the uncle): the handsome, impulsive young man who lives love stories, and whose emotional and social accounts are broken in his hometown of Qasimiya. The story starts from the town of Qasimiya, where joy arises from the arrival of the "Makhadhira" (workers gathering crops from the south of the Kingdom), who light up the town's nights with dancing and singing. The message and the moral The novel is not just a story of love and individual heartbreaks, but a literary documentary journey of the southern regions of Jeddah and how they transformed over the years. It records: Social change: the transition of generations from simple life in villages and rural areas to the life of emerging cities like Jeddah. "Season" culture: highlighting the seasonal migration of workers from the south to the harvest areas in Tihama, and the cultural and social interaction resulting from that. Urban history: the novel is considered a literary reference for those who want to learn about Jeddah and how it changed geographically and socially during fifty years of development.