From the frivolity of summer - Taha Hussein

About the book From the Idle of Summer - Taha Hussein: If the heat of summer makes people indulge in laziness and idleness, they spend nights with distractions, and flock to vacation destinations; then winter with its coldness and gloom is the season for work and delayed pleasures. And our cycle of life continues from the leisure of summer to the seriousness of winter, while we read in this book conversations of seriousness mixed sometimes with humor, sometimes with imagination, and most often with benefit. So, Taha Hussein — through diverse titles and topics that are far from idle chatter and frivolity — takes us on a journey where we observe the moments of severity and tenderness in the personality of Al-Farooq Omar ibn Al-Khattab, stand on the ruins of Troy, and discover the secret of rational imagination, and the secrets of love and art. We contemplate our social reality and invent possible solutions to elevate it, see ourselves in the mirror of the present sometimes, and in the mirrors of the past other times to discover our true face, and live in harmony with what we have achieved and what we aspire to.