The Nabati

Mariah captures the heart with her innocence, and her virginity of perception... In her, there is freshness of narration that touches the walls of mud houses, and the spirits of those who dwell in them, the fragrant poverty and the quickening footsteps in a time that coincidentally was a major turning point in religion, the country, and the death of an era, and a healthy birth of a new era for humanity at that time. Zubaida Khamis The Nabati novel, this wonderful work that pulls you from the heart of your current time to place you in the heart of another time, not to read the history of that time, but to see with the eyes of the novelist how people lived, thought, loved, and hated in that era which is more than fifteen centuries away from us. Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh A wonderful novel that adds to Youssef Zidan’s rich and distinctive creative repertoire in terms of linguistic construction, and in intertwining the historical with the creative in a problematic braid that grants it many followers and many opponents, and this is the nature of great creativity. Fatima Naoot A hoopoe... a neighbor to Youssef Zidan, a psychoanalyst who listens to a woman who resembles Bilqis, but she refuses to meet Solomon... Youssef Zidan was sitting happily in the carriage of imagination, attracted to a feminine pole whose secret is only revealed to those whose shirts are tailored from all sides. Adonis We are all “Mariah” to varying degrees, we are all Mariah in some aspect of life. Sahar Al-Jaara Book information: • Author: Youssef Zidan • Year of publication: 2010 • Publisher: Al-Shorouk • Number of pages: 391