Engagement

Author's name: Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher is preoccupied with the human spirit, always striving to retrieve it, to save it from destruction, from loss, from ugliness, from the power of hatred, from the mire of things, and the dust of time and place. He is preoccupied with the preoccupation of saints and great artists. He sees the past quickly being forgotten, and the present running away, turning into the past. So he summons all his determination, all his delicate feelings, all his memory with its extraordinary ability to store, to build from all of this a high dam that prevents time from encroaching on values ​​that Bahaa Taher wants to remain, because they are the most beautiful thing that the human spirit carries. In Ali Al-Ra’i’s “The Engagement,” we see a world devoid of additions and additions, extremely dense and economical, seemingly extremely neutral or bordering on indifference, but beneath this deceptive neutral cloak, it is brimming with simple and intractable human emotions, longings, and passions. "Sabry Hafez" "Bahaa Taher" born in 1935, one of the most important Arab novelists, won the Mubarak Prize for Literature in 2009, and before that the State Appreciation Award in Literature in 1998, and his novel "Sunset Oasis" won the Arabic Booker Prize in its first session in 2008. To date, he has published six novels, the most important of which are: "My Aunt Safiya and the Monastery" in 1991 and "Love in Exile" in 1995, and five short story collections in addition to literary and critical studies and translations