• Category: Novels
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: First
• Number of Pages: 172
• Author: Abdullah Maksour
• Publisher: Fadaat Publishing

These are memoirs of war and captivity, of violent psychological shocks that swept like an earthquake through the psyche of the author and everyone who has read about the historical periods that have afflicted the Arab and Islamic region. This novel charts new territory for the literature of resistance, a genre largely missing from Arab libraries. It presents details from the Iraqi-American war, the efforts of the resistance, and the subjective and objective obstacles it faced, all in a breathtaking, dramatic sequence of events that compels the reader to continue to the very end.

The novel's unique power lies in its ability to uplift the Arab spirit and express a genuine commitment and national consciousness. It frames this as a fundamental ethical, moral, ideological, and human duty towards our shared Arab causes. It is a powerful stand against an Arab reality marked by disappointment and submission, and a determined effort to show that the natural response is political, cultural, and literary action in the face of events—a movement that rises to a revolution against this reality, inspiring the change within ourselves necessary for our circumstances to change.