Dhat Al-Nisfayn – Novel by Nada Ahmed Jaber

She walked through life as if she were searching for something she did not know... She read faces, listened to voices, and explored cities one after another. Each time, she felt her heart saying: “Not yet.”

She searched for him without a clear image or defined features... guided only by an inner feeling of a man who resembled the comfort that comes late, and resembled home when home is born beyond geography. She always felt that he existed... something inside her kept saying: “One day, I will meet him.”

Without even realizing it, she was always searching for him.

He... dreamed of her as one dreams of great dreams... silently and with a strange sense of faith. He did not know what she looked like, yet he could feel her presence even before meeting her. He felt that somewhere there was a woman who would come to rearrange his heart, making him less lonely and giving his life greater meaning.

He waited for her without haste... like someone who knows that profound things do not come quickly, but require from fate a moment of coincidence capable of changing the world around him.

He knew that his relentless and dangerous work tracking terrorist groups was merely an escape from the harsh emptiness of his loneliness... He was always, without realizing it, searching for her.