woodcutters

Author's name: Hamed Al-Nazer

He may have entered journalism through the wrong door and hated it, but he nevertheless became a star in his field. He quickly realized that the world is shaped inside a television newsroom, where he works on the hour with stories, images, headlines, and breaking news, but that's not all.

Even his eccentric love story became part of this complex game. He would have many doubts about the nature of the news and its various manifestations, and whether it was an end or a means, an origin or a metaphor, but he would have no doubt that words in that darkness were forbidden and carried a price when spoken without the "captain's" permission.

A novel that brings us closer to the world of journalism, news stations, investigative programs, and what lies behind this sensitive industry, and whether this world is art, politics, a search for glory, or something else. Perhaps it is the first Arab novel to pose such questions from such a close distance.