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Yesterday, my library had a special drawer for the thinker, politician, and doctor, Professor Hossam Al-Badrawi, after five books came to me from Egypt. I think that he has completed the collection of his books that he has published so far.
In fact, I am very passionate about reading the articles that Dr. Hossam publishes in Al-Masry Al-Youm, and his television interviews as well, because I love in the man his abundance of production, which never compromises the value and uniqueness of what he writes, as well as his encyclopedia, which cuts off your questions regarding many pressing issues, and then this is the most important, the greatest. He has an amazing ability to approach the topics he publishes in a synthetic manner, in which he combines the philosophical, the scientific, the religious, the political, the artistic…etc.
When Dr. Hossam sings his praises and presents you with his hearty literary meals, and you read his eloquent style, and feel at the same time his scientific brilliance and intellectual depth, you understand directly that he is a writer who has combined the two good things, writing and high literary taste, and conveyed the message that every true intellectual within himself would like to promote. His community and his nation.
There is always a regulating thread to the abundant production of Dr. Hossam El Badrawy; Shaking off the dust from the mind in order for the Egyptians to build a new republic on a strong, solid and sustainable foundation. What applies to Egyptians applies to all Arabs for him.
All of his writings carry this concern and aim to achieve this highest goal.
He is from that generation of writers who adapt to the tastes of all readers, who are not exhausted by a literary genre and who do not hesitate to find a style of writing that can make them address a specific audience. Their goal in doing so is to attract people to their intellectual and societal project in all directions.
For an honest politician, writing is a position, another platform that should be exploited, a proven method for understanding, mobilizing, and mobilizing broad masses for great ideas that change and advance. In the case of Hossam Badrawi, it turns, on top of that, into Hossam or Muhannad, who represents the head of ignorance, stagnation, isolation, and fanaticism. Therefore, he engages in various intellectual and political battles with his pen, and for this reason wanders into various genres of literature, from articles, poetry, and political sermons in the party or Parliament, to the short story.
In the story “At the Arab Spring Café”, despite the direct style, the idea is original, and it summarizes the bitter reality of our Arab world in a way that no volumes or books will summarize. This short story for me is a novel, rather it is a heptagon. It is also a story in which everyone can see The Arab public is humiliated, and what a dark fate awaits it, if the necessary turn towards reason and towards insight into the true spirit of religion does not occur. Any summary can compete with such a summary. What a short story this sums up an entire nation!
In the third story, our thinker addresses the issue of the miracle, and perhaps he did what George Tarabishi did in his book The Miracle or the Sleep of the Mind in Islam, so he directed this story to the Arab mind, which must understand that with the completion of the revelation that was sent down to our master Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, the connection between heaven and earth has ended. The miracles and supernatural things have ended, and Muslims must now pay attention to the cosmic miracles contained in the creation of God Almighty. The prophetic miracles have ended, and the era of the miracles hidden in us and in the universe has begun, which we will not reach except with knowledge, and therefore we must wake up from what we are immersed in, and reconcile with the spirit of the modern era, which is its foundation. Learn and innovate before it’s too late.
I cannot finish this article without taking you to the events of the fifth story, especially since it is the one that gave its title to the entire collection of short stories. Therefore, it contains a secret that the writer has entrusted to it. Firstly, it is a short story, but it can also be considered a very short novel, as it is a short story with three chapters, and it is rare for a storyteller to resort to such a narrative structure, unless he is confident of himself and of his knowledge, and does not worry about it. The slightest fear of possible lack of acceptance from the public. Otherwise, if he is a candidate himself to write a novel in the future.
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In this story, the doctor who tells the story appears to us, or the storyteller who sat at the writing desk wearing his medical overalls.
Hossam El-Badrawy tells us about Laila and her strange pregnancy, of which barely 14 cases have been recorded in the entire world. This pregnancy is in which the pregnant woman is the mother and the father at the same time. It is a strange pregnancy, but it has an explanation and existence, and it does not resemble in any way the miracle of the Virgin and her son Christ. I will not reveal everything. The story, which is in fact information cast in a wonderful narrative form, I cannot, no matter how much I try, narrate it with the smoothness and simplification with which the doctor and storyteller Hossam Badrawy excelled in narrating it, but I will suffice with saying that despite the shortness of this short story, our writer discusses sensitive issues such as pregnancy. The host, miscarriage, genetic imprinting, etc. Therefore, out of the slightest fascination, I decided to discuss chimera pregnancy with the resident doctors in gynecology, here at the University of Rabat.
There are other stories, all of which are full of deep meanings, and all of which attract you gently and deeply to them. Eloquent stories that cannot help but raise questions and inquiries within you that sharpen your mind and soul. These are stories whose author aims to encourage research and the adoption of boldness in thinking as a way of life. I mention among them “Ahmed Al-Mansouri… and Socrates,” “Zizou,” “Sleep Sultan,” “The Hoopoe and the Internet,” and others.
Hossam Badrawi succeeded in the test that I usually take with myself for creative works, which is that the work that I see bound on the blank pages succeeds in turning into a tape whose characters and events continue in my imagination and before my eyes. This is what happened to me with “The Chimera,” and what encouraged me to do so. I consider these short stories suitable to become literary texts, as well as scientific ones, to be taught to our students, whether in civil education or religious education. Rather, I call on screenwriters and creative film directors to transfer some of them to cinema screens. I hope you will find no affectation or any strangeness in this proposal. Because when you read it, you will realize that our great author has succeeded so much in condensing the meaning in his short stories to the point that I feel like I am being arbitrarily important as I finish this article. There is still something I have to mention and simplify in this collection.
In fact, I am very passionate about reading the articles that Dr. Hossam publishes in Al-Masry Al-Youm, and his television interviews as well, because I love in the man his abundance of production, which never compromises the value and uniqueness of what he writes, as well as his encyclopedia, which cuts off your questions regarding many pressing issues, and then this is the most important, the greatest. He has an amazing ability to approach the topics he publishes in a synthetic manner, in which he combines the philosophical, the scientific, the religious, the political, the artistic…etc.
When Dr. Hossam sings his praises and presents you with his hearty literary meals, and you read his eloquent style, and feel at the same time his scientific brilliance and intellectual depth, you understand directly that he is a writer who has combined the two good things, writing and high literary taste, and conveyed the message that every true intellectual within himself would like to promote. His community and his nation.
There is always a regulating thread to the abundant production of Dr. Hossam El Badrawy; Shaking off the dust from the mind in order for the Egyptians to build a new republic on a strong, solid and sustainable foundation. What applies to Egyptians applies to all Arabs for him.
All of his writings carry this concern and aim to achieve this highest goal.
He is from that generation of writers who adapt to the tastes of all readers, who are not exhausted by a literary genre and who do not hesitate to find a style of writing that can make them address a specific audience. Their goal in doing so is to attract people to their intellectual and societal project in all directions.
For an honest politician, writing is a position, another platform that should be exploited, a proven method for understanding, mobilizing, and mobilizing broad masses for great ideas that change and advance. In the case of Hossam Badrawi, it turns, on top of that, into Hossam or Muhannad, who represents the head of ignorance, stagnation, isolation, and fanaticism. Therefore, he engages in various intellectual and political battles with his pen, and for this reason wanders into various genres of literature, from articles, poetry, and political sermons in the party or Parliament, to the short story.
In the story “At the Arab Spring Café”, despite the direct style, the idea is original, and it summarizes the bitter reality of our Arab world in a way that no volumes or books will summarize. This short story for me is a novel, rather it is a heptagon. It is also a story in which everyone can see The Arab public is humiliated, and what a dark fate awaits it, if the necessary turn towards reason and towards insight into the true spirit of religion does not occur. Any summary can compete with such a summary. What a short story this sums up an entire nation!
In the third story, our thinker addresses the issue of the miracle, and perhaps he did what George Tarabishi did in his book The Miracle or the Sleep of the Mind in Islam, so he directed this story to the Arab mind, which must understand that with the completion of the revelation that was sent down to our master Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, the connection between heaven and earth has ended. The miracles and supernatural things have ended, and Muslims must now pay attention to the cosmic miracles contained in the creation of God Almighty. The prophetic miracles have ended, and the era of the miracles hidden in us and in the universe has begun, which we will not reach except with knowledge, and therefore we must wake up from what we are immersed in, and reconcile with the spirit of the modern era, which is its foundation. Learn and innovate before it’s too late.
I cannot finish this article without taking you to the events of the fifth story, especially since it is the one that gave its title to the entire collection of short stories. Therefore, it contains a secret that the writer has entrusted to it. Firstly, it is a short story, but it can also be considered a very short novel, as it is a short story with three chapters, and it is rare for a storyteller to resort to such a narrative structure, unless he is confident of himself and of his knowledge, and does not worry about it. The slightest fear of possible lack of acceptance from the public. Otherwise, if he is a candidate himself to write a novel in the future.
——-///////////
In this story, the doctor who tells the story appears to us, or the storyteller who sat at the writing desk wearing his medical overalls.
Hossam El-Badrawy tells us about Laila and her strange pregnancy, of which barely 14 cases have been recorded in the entire world. This pregnancy is in which the pregnant woman is the mother and the father at the same time. It is a strange pregnancy, but it has an explanation and existence, and it does not resemble in any way the miracle of the Virgin and her son Christ. I will not reveal everything. The story, which is in fact information cast in a wonderful narrative form, I cannot, no matter how much I try, narrate it with the smoothness and simplification with which the doctor and storyteller Hossam Badrawy excelled in narrating it, but I will suffice with saying that despite the shortness of this short story, our writer discusses sensitive issues such as pregnancy. The host, miscarriage, genetic imprinting, etc. Therefore, out of the slightest fascination, I decided to discuss chimera pregnancy with the resident doctors in gynecology, here at the University of Rabat.
There are other stories, all of which are full of deep meanings, and all of which attract you gently and deeply to them. Eloquent stories that cannot help but raise questions and inquiries within you that sharpen your mind and soul. These are stories whose author aims to encourage research and the adoption of boldness in thinking as a way of life. I mention among them “Ahmed Al-Mansouri… and Socrates,” “Zizou,” “Sleep Sultan,” “The Hoopoe and the Internet,” and others.
Hossam Badrawi succeeded in the test that I usually take with myself for creative works, which is that the work that I see bound on the blank pages succeeds in turning into a tape whose characters and events continue in my imagination and before my eyes. This is what happened to me with “The Chimera,” and what encouraged me to do so. I consider these short stories suitable to become literary texts, as well as scientific ones, to be taught to our students, whether in civil education or religious education. Rather, I call on screenwriters and creative film directors to transfer some of them to cinema screens. I hope you will find no affectation or any strangeness in this proposal. Because when you read it, you will realize that our great author has succeeded so much in condensing the meaning in his short stories to the point that I feel like I am being arbitrarily important as I finish this article. There is still something I have to mention and simplify in this collection.
Finally, I feel that through these stories, which I read with indescribable eagerness, enjoyment, and pleasure, Hossam Badrawi is also on his way to forming a new, renewed phenomenon in our Arab literature. He is the definitive proof that doctors are the most capable of coming up with stories and novels that combine splendor, enjoyment, and sobriety. Scientific knowledge, richness of imagination, strength of style, and accuracy of reporting, as is rarely possible for other professions. This exceptional writer came to the story out of talent, and I can only imagine that he will impose himself in its world.
Because when we read his short stories, we just feel that we are quenching our taste, mind, heart, and soul. We are faced with writing stories of a different style than what we have been accustomed to.
Moroccan doctor and writer
Because when we read his short stories, we just feel that we are quenching our taste, mind, heart, and soul. We are faced with writing stories of a different style than what we have been accustomed to.
Moroccan doctor and writer
