Dust advice

Author's name: Mazen Arafah Publisher: Al-Takween for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2011 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: The novel "Dust's Wills" by writer Mazen Arafah is the first Arab novel work that reveals a hidden, neglected, and oppressed world in a panorama of cultural, political, and religious corruption and stability apparatuses. It contains predictions for the current situation and its future over 664 pages. The novel's events branch out to expose the ideology of Islamic bliss in all its sexual dimensions based on the fatwas of the "gods" of the desert, and to expose the American paradise that presents itself as an alternative relying on consumer culture that has psychologically and spiritually deform us through the visions of pivotal characters in American decision-making positions, reaching to expose the wooden mentality of Arab censorship on books in authoritarian political and religious regimes. The novel comes to light through exciting pages of satire and pain about the cultural decline we have reached, with a mixture of harsh tragedy and black comedy in a framework where the author reaches the utmost levels of unbelievable fantasy… Al-Nahda Newspaper