Shadow government - Munther Al-Qabbani

Perhaps the novel is the most suitable literary genre for expressing the movement of history and its makers, even rephrasing it and reading it consciously. If you understand the past, it will guide you to solve the puzzles of the present and perhaps sense the future as well. In "Shadow Government," Munther Al-Qabbani highlights the role of some secret movements working in the shadows and their influence on decision-making, whether political or economic. In the novel's context, history and the present walk side by side, each re-creating the other. Between the crash of Naeem Al-Wazan's plane at Casablanca Airport at the beginning of the novel and its takeoff to Malaysia at the end, are two parallel narrative paths. The first path is a historical one, taking place in the Turkish city of Istanbul in the early twentieth century, with grandfather Khalil Al-Wazan as its hero. The second path is contemporary, occurring in a non-Arab city at the end of the twentieth century, with grandson Naeem Al-Wazan as its hero. Between these two paths, there is a large amount of pressing events, facts, and a grim reality that weighs heavily on the characters and nations. In the novel, the incident of the murder of three historians under mysterious circumstances, in the same manner and at the same time, in three different cities, forms a hot dramatic starting point in the work, especially since the three historians were researching the same topic: the role of some secret Jewish movements in weakening the Caliphate and overthrowing Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1902, through the Union and Progress Society. This suggests that the killer might be the same entity, aiming to prevent some historical facts from being uncovered. The murder of these three was because they crossed red lines, in the view of those movements. After Dr. Abdel Qader Binouzani, a Moroccan history professor, secretly told his student Naeem Al-Wazan, a Saudi businessman, that he was working on a book with his friend Ahmed Abdel Wareth, an Egyptian history professor, and after Canadian-Jewish journalist secretly told his Egyptian journalist friend Talaat Nagaty that Mohamed Javid Pasha, a member of the Ottoman Parliament, was actually Zivi Hayim, the grandfather of the Israeli Foreign Minister, the three are killed under the same circumstances, in the same history, and in the same way!? After "Shadow Government," a novel that reveals conspiracies against the Ottoman Caliphate and the Zionist project to control Palestine, as well as behind-the-scenes politics and leaders in more than one region of the world... Cover type: Regular paper Size: 14×21