Buthaina Al Essa's writings

Overview of Buthaina Al Essa's works: Al Forous (The Bride of the Rain) is her first novel, addressing humanitarian and social issues in poetic language, and showing the beginnings of her philosophical and reflective style. Qais and Laila and the Wolf is a symbolic work discussing the relationship between humans and freedom, using characters taken from heritage to depict the struggle of identity and thought. Haa' (He) is a collection of diverse articles about life and love. Two voices about the art of writing dialogue in novels. I grew up and forgot to forget is one of her most famous works, telling the story of a Kuwaiti girl experiencing war and psychological pain after the invasion, in an emotional poetic language. The Blind Sindbad: a novel of freedom and death, a symbolic and philosophical work about freedom, destiny, and the search for self, blending myth and reality. Daru Khawla is a short novel about the relationship between a mother and her children. The Keeper of the Surface of the World is a dystopian (future imagination) novel set in a world where writing and reading are forbidden, discussing intellectual freedom and awareness. Truth and Writing is a critical intellectual book, in which she talks about writing as an act of consciousness and resistance, and discusses the writer's responsibility towards truth and beauty.