Migration season to the north collection of words

Author's name: الطيب صالحدار Publication: مشروع كلمة للترجمة Year of publication: 2026 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: One of the greatest Arabic novels in the twentieth century I remembered what the priest told me, on my way to Cairo, "We all, my son, travel alone in the end." From the Nile bend in the forgotten village of ود حامد, the doors of the story open to the life of مصطفى سعيد, the mysterious man who takes us from the sessions of friends in front of سعيد's shop, to the closed room, to Cairo, then London, reaching the vast world. On the pages of the novel, the experience of displacement and return, loneliness and alienation, and the constant search for self and the other, unfolds in fierce battles between the enlightened self and tyranny, and between the national self and colonialism. Season of Migration to the North rewrites the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized, and dismantles the stereotypical image cemented by colonial literature, in an astonishing journey from the south to the north, stirring a whirlpool of artistic and intellectual magic, as described by رجاء النقاش. Since its first publication in 1966, the novel has remained a landmark in Arabic literature, and has been repeatedly chosen among the hundred best Arabic novels of the twentieth century, as one of the pillars of modern Arabic storytelling.