Doubt

Number of pages: 400 pages Publisher: Athar Publishing House Summary It deals with suspicion of the intersection of two eras, and a generation trying to escape from under the cloak of another generation. Changes follow, and stories unfold, sometimes similar and sometimes different. It describes social life before and after the oil boom in the region. And after the abolition of slavery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the fate of many changed. Among them was Mubarak Al-Abd, who was treated well by his master and was taught, so he chose to stay with him and did not leave until four years after his emancipation; to start a new life as an independent free man. There was also Thiban, the free man who was enslaved by his stepmother with humiliation and injustice, so he fled from his family and freed himself; to start a new life himself as a free and independent man. Thiban met Mubarak in the Eastern Province, and since that meeting, Thiban doubted Mubarak and everything. Each of them goes on with his life, career, and family, and from time to time their fates intersect and their relationship develops (there is an growing hostility like a lone tree in the yard of a small house, like the sidra tree in front of Thiban’s house, which will become bigger: the sidra or the growing hatred between the neighbors?). Summary The work discusses the concept of freedom and liberation, and the extent of human awareness of the constraints that bind him, and his ability to free himself from them, whether these constraints are chosen or imposed upon him, the constraints resulting from human suspicion of himself and others, the constraints inherited by generations, and also points to the change of constraints according to stages of life.