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The End of the Tunnel by Latifa Al-Hajj
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No novelist can depict the images, significations, goals, and purposes of resistance unless they have practiced the act of resistance in thought, action, emotion, and belonging. Latifa Al-Hajj has made her very existence a symbol of resistance. She was not defeated by difficulties, nor did storms shake the throne of her creativity. She held onto the embers of her faith, drawing from the pain of her soul, her observations, and the authenticity of her belonging to paint the supreme form of life. The heroine of the novel "The End of the Tunnel" is a manifestation of the author's personality, who embraced the ideology of resistance as a way of life and acted upon its inspiration with heart and mind. This novel is not a mere narration of events; it is a work of art charged with truths, wisdom, national opinions, values, visions, and aspirations. It embodies the resistance of the Lebanese woman who armed herself with the light of resistance, making her actions a national and human choice, and affirming the saying: "Woman and man are human." - Professor Maha Khair Bek, Professor of Graduate Studies at the Lebanese University.
The novel "The End of the Tunnel" by Latifa Al-Hajj Qadih has preserved the man's share within the feminine narrative; it did not diminish his right and allowed the woman to breathe as a human being who can maintain her independence within the marital dyad. When Fatima took control of the narrative, it was natural for her presence in the novel to be fundamental, allowing the man's presence the potential for its realization. This gave the feminist novel its truth, its literary quality tied to the woman's vision of the referential world she transferred into the novel, shaped by the specificity of her concerns and interests as a female. This was the right of a writer who seeks to describe her own gender in a patriarchal society. It is the flag of Latifa Al-Hajj Qadih, raised high in a space that accommodates all dualities. - Dr. Ali Mahdi Zaitoun, Professor of Literary Criticism at the Lebanese University.