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The ram

*It's as if Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a "stroke of fate" that we receive, making us wake up from a voluntary slumber and an involuntary faint.
When we read "The Ram" by Anwar Al-Khatib, we realize that a memory that does not bear some of that man's creativity is a distorted memory...one that deserves to be hidden in shame or become scattered in vain.
We are filled with wonder as we ask the author: What imagination overwhelms you and ravages your mind when you adorn yourself with a pen to write and even draw a novel that combines surrealism, abstraction, fantasy, and realism?!
* With captivating imagination, we rode the water with you, and we were certain that illusion is the certain truth that we practice with merit and distinction.
* The novel is a painting or a choir playing a single, supremely wonderful symphony, with each musician individually displaying their own skill on their instrument. Then the maestro comes with his baton to bring everything together in a single musical rhythm, linking all the threads of the novel, leaving you in a state of astonishing shock, or should I say madness.
* The preacher takes the animal world with its magnificence and refined "humanity"... rejecting the human world with all its baseness and brutality, and I won't say its animality... for animals have become more refined than us.
* Surprise par excellence accompanies you from the beginning of the striking and question-provoking title, even as you close the second cover of the book, announcing the end of reading... then you discover that your mouth is still gaping with amazement and astonishment... and perhaps we will remain on the sidewalk of that amazement until he surprises us with his new edition.