Swiss Robinson family, by: Johan David Weiss

The entire earth is the land of the Lord, and wherever you live a good and beneficial life under His sight, that spot is your homeland. The Swiss Robinson family novel was first published in German in 1813, and has been translated into many languages since then, and movies and a Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation in 1981 have been adapted from it, known in the Arab world as Flona Robinson Crusoe. The story was built on a report by a captain of a Russian ship who discovered during one of his sea voyages a number of fertile islands, and when the sailors landed on one of these islands, they found a family of a father, mother, and four children, their ship had crashed and no one survived except them, so they made the island their home. What does one do if thrown by the sea onto an island uninhabited by humans before? And what will stir in his chest except loneliness, depression, and fear? However, he will quickly realize that he must take care of himself, and be cautious of what resources he has. Rather, he strives to develop the land, in one way or another, the land that saved him. We do not need the sea to cast us onto a deserted island to develop the land, but we need to develop the hearts, before the land, with love, mercy, and tenderness, “for green land only becomes green with human resolve.” Translation: Buthaina Al-Ibrahim Number of pages: 452