cowboy hat

Author's name: Ahmed Al-Zanati

In The Cowboy Hat Diary, the writer opens his personal journal to an internal struggle with time, meaning, and self.

The diaries are a mixture of reflections, memories, prose texts, and dreams, where the voices of Jung, Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, Hermann Hesse, Kafka, Badr Al-Deeb, and Muhammad Anani are juxtaposed with the echo of intimate and real experiences.

From waking up at dawn, from longing for the memory of loved ones, to the pleasure of writing as a refuge, and moving between books, thinkers, and philosophers, these diaries take shape as a journey into the margins, where routine becomes a ritual, writing a consolation, and reading a search for solutions to troubling problems.

These diaries insist on distancing themselves from mainstream writing, taking the everyday, the transient, and the marginal, as well as memories, dreams, and the author's relationship with the world of books and ideas, as material for a broader contemplation of the world, inspired by the phrase of the French poet Henri Michaux: "I write to browse my life."