The Cities of the Purple

Author's name: Nabil Suleiman Publisher: Al Hiwar for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Philosophy and Thought Brief about the book: A gift with Dubai Cultural Magazine, Issue 94, March 2013 In the novel "Madain Al-Arjwan," the writer Nabil Suleiman chooses to title the first paragraph of his narrative as "The purple barrel spills onto the asphalt," and ends the last paragraph with "Many purple barrels spilled onto the asphalt." Between the first barrel and the last barrels, there is a slope of much purple that has turned into the blood of the slaughtered and the buried under a hail of bullets.