Emerald Mountain

Author's name: Mansoura Ezz El-Din

“Mansoura Ezz El-Din embroiders this superior narrative with the care of a jeweler, blending stones, colors, and shapes with perfect craftsmanship, as she evokes in the mythical the primal desire for creation, and the tragedy of prophecies and destinies. She violates the law of documentation that presumes women to be creative, just as she waters in the daily broadcast the water of life that grows the herb of immortality. She is immersed in the pleasure of flying in the horizon of “One Thousand and One Nights” with a winged imagination, crafting its language, controlling its rhythm, and connecting what was interrupted from its tales in a special adventure, to produce a new oriental color of enchanted realism inlaid with generous precious stones.” “Dr. Salah Fadl: “Mansoura Ezz El-Din grasped the essence of “One Thousand and One Nights,” its significance as an artistic talisman against death. She set out to astonishing horizons, and with a truly impressive degree of maturity and mastery, she realized that the logic of the Nights (and perhaps the law of art as well) is to break traditional logic, to refer to the imagination that not only reconstitutes the parts into a coherent whole, but also reshapes time like a piece of clay.” Mahmoud Abdel Shakoor