The belt

But said Hizam bitterly, that glorious time has passed, and no one remains but me carrying the spirit and certainty of the village, but I in turn will die, and after me no one but you, oh my soul and my certainty. Ahmad Abu Dahman is the one who carries the spirit and certainty of the village, proud of it, writing for it and within it the sweetest words, so that the French see it with their own eyes, written in their language. This is the book that carried within it the identity of its author, the one who was truly born in the Al Khalaf village located on the peaks of the Sarawat Mountains, in the south of Saudi Arabia. Hizam wrote what no one will see and wrote what no one will read, Hizam. Was it enough for Hizam to be absent and most of those concerned with this text to be absent for Ahmad Abu Dahman to write in a language other than their language? No, because Hizam inherited his memory, the memory of the village, so he had to find a memory that carried both of them. And he chose the memory of a woman, the memory of his mother and her spirit, his daughters, and his wife. And as soon as "The Hizam" was published in French, which is the first book by a writer from the Arabian Peninsula to produce a creative work in French, as soon as this book was published, Ahmad Boudhaman discovered that he, and the sons of his village, have a home everywhere, and that others he does not know will translate it into their languages. But the most welcoming and intimate greeting was what a reader from the Maghreb said: "This is our memory returning to us."