From the Summer's Nonsense - Taha Hussein

If the summer heat makes people seek idleness and laziness, spending their nights in entertainment and flocking to summer resorts, then winter, with its cold and gloom, is a season for work and postponed pleasures. The cycle of life continues from the frivolity of summer to the seriousness of winter, while in this book we read discussions of seriousness sometimes mixed with humor, sometimes with imagination, and most often with benefit. Taha Hussein, through various titles and topics that are far from frivolity and amusement, takes us on a journey where we examine the strengths and weaknesses in the character of Omar ibn al-Khattab, stand among the ruins of Troy, discover the secret of rational imagination, and the secrets of love and art. We reflect on our social reality and devise possible solutions to improve it, seeing ourselves in the mirror of the present at times and in the mirrors of the past at other times to discover our true selves, and live in harmony with what we have achieved and what we aspire to.