Children and destinies

This book is not an autobiography but memories, because the biography of Anis Al-Nakshash is broader and farther-reaching and more comprehensive and deeper than that, certainly. Here, in his passionate memoirs, there are stations he passed through quickly, and stations he deliberately overlooked and gently and skillfully bypassed their holes, and there are facts he detailed in precise and beautiful detail, and this is the difference between biography and memories. Anis Al-Nakshash is, in essence, the summary of an Arab generation that strongly aspired to unity, to liberate Palestine, to be free from colonization, and to establish modern, free, and democratic states. And Anis's experience in this field, with its enchanting brilliance and bitter disappointments, remains like the remaining nectar of those bright hopes. Perhaps those dreams shrink and recede, or break, but their nectar remains fragrant.