The Spartan Diwan

Author's name: Abdul Wahab Aisaweidar Publisher: Maskelyani Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Toulon returns to memory as a festival of cheers, familiar faces and others strange roaming the streets. Soldiers in endless ranks, their steps monotonous heading to the port, everyone wishing to be part of the holy war, which brings glory to a nation whose honor was wounded and insulted. Everyone wants to eliminate the pirate hill that enslaves the Christians. Everyone dreams of destroying the legend of the savage Turks in the Mediterranean. But what is Toulon like today? Will I hear the echo of cheers and follow the soldiers' traces? Or have people turned to their daily concerns and forgotten all their past dreams? Surely, that is what happened. Hasn't the city that terrified everyone ended and transferred from the Turks to the Romans? That is what happened, and that is what I will think about when I cross the Mediterranean to see it with its different face, after two years of my absence and three years since its occupation.