Love in the time of ignorance Fahd Al-Oudah pages: 120 pages

Publication date: 2014 Publisher: Dar Kalemat Genre: Literature / Novel Language: Arabic Author: Fahad Al-Ouda Synopsis of the novel: Fahad Al-Ouda wrote "I walk following your fleeing footsteps, my only and sole guide... I want you like someone who seeks life so as not to suffocate. If I could just sleep to forget you a little, and let me sleep like the dead to dream that you are not here inside, growing and spreading until you occupy me like a closed fortress." When love is a curse and separation becomes the inevitable fate, in our pre-Islamic ignorance where love is buried and sentenced to death before it is born; how miserable you are and how terrible your fate if your heart neglects and loves! Fahad Al-Ouda writes; bringing a story we may have heard before about tribal customs and taboos, including marrying outside your tribe, in which heroes live a forbidden love story where sorrow eats their hearts and longing tears souls apart throughout time, for those who share their miserable fates. Quotes: You are the bread of the heart, and you are the light when you lose me in the darkness! We will become a nation when we forget what the tribe tells us... Mahmoud Darwish "We do not die from emptiness, or from loneliness... We die from those who have devalued us, and we felt they were life. Don’t ask why our hearts have become cheap... but ask why we devalue our hearts."