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“Do you love owls? Have you ever seen an owl in a circus? It’s a creature that defies domestication, rejecting emotional manipulation and the logic of theatrical performance. Have you ever seen an owl trying to make someone laugh, or coax them into petting it like a lapdog wagging its tail? Have you ever seen an owl confined to a cage, croaking in its misery? Has anyone ever offered you an owl in a supermarket of domesticated creatures? Owls aren’t for sale… but they fly to what they love and whom they love. Don’t you love them?”
These words by Ghada al-Samman invite you to reflect, to re-evaluate what you love and what you don’t, and to weigh up the errors in your past calculations and in the concepts you borrowed from tradition or from others, which then came to occupy a part of your convictions without question. Ghada al-Samman’s texts in this book are, on the surface, an invitation to forge a friendly relationship with the present, to dance with it after a long period of estrangement. At their core, they are a gentle and endearing philosophy that resonates deeply, penetrating hearts and captivating the mind. This is because they represent a literary direction that Ghada al-Samman intended to be distinct from, or perhaps parallel to, her novels in particular and her literary works in general—a kind of literary creativity that flows into the river of human generosity that runs abundantly from the writer’s creative wellspring.
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