This novel depicts a traditional Arab city, where springs are pure, the fruits of its trees are delicious, its women are innocent and beautiful, and its men are simple. Suddenly, the hurricanes of globalization swept through it. Merchants, mercenaries, travelers, pirates, mafia gangs, and the destitute named it "The City of Globalization." Due to heavy traffic in the area, it began to expand and grow at an astonishing speed. Urbanization increased, streets widened, and skyscrapers and factories appeared. Sewage flowed from them, their chemicals and arsenic polluting the spring water and killing its colorful fish. Poisonous gases spread, and pollution destroyed everything. One of its simple children grew up to become a billionaire with global business activities, and the diseases of the twenty-first century spread, the most heinous of which was AIDS. It is a society, rich yet poor, rotten from head to toe, and afflicted with the disease of globalization.

This Arab "City of Globalization" is not in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, the Maghreb, or the Arabian Peninsula. Instead, it is located within the common borders of these countries, in an area that the "two brothers Sykes and Picot" forgot to register in their plans, leaving it unprotected and a point of contention among Arabs.

This novel portrays Arab life—human, social, and commercial—in the postmodern era, within a society of savage capitalism that is invading the world, and depicts "Love in the Time of Globalization."

Sobhi Fahmawi is a landscape engineer, a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, the Arab Writers Union, the Egyptian Writers Union, and the Egyptian Story Club. He writes for Al-Ra'i newspaper, Jordanian newspapers, and various Arab literary magazines.

• Publishing house: Dar Al-Farabi for Publishing and Distribution
• Number of Pages: 304
• Year of publication: 2008
• ISBN: 9789953712932