He broke with the novel "Praise to the women of the family" the process of alienation of the Palestinian people in their land

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During the holy month of Ramadan we offer you a series of "Iftar with a novel", and we present through the presentation of one of the major Arab novels. We present to you today a novel entitled "Praise to the Family Women" by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Choucair, published in 2015 by the House of Hachette Antoine in Beirut, In the short list of the 2016 World Prize for Arabic Fiction.

In this novel, the Palestinian writer Mahmud Shuqair narrates the story of the women of the clan Al-Abd al-Lat, who did not remain silent about the "official" behavior that wore the short inner ribbons and accompanied her husband to an evening, just as they did not remain silent about Najma, Her departure from the head of the spring and her stay in the city, "Sana" also, a bank employee, received her share of the speech after the sea water fell and the sun shone the white of her legs. All of this and the "vampire," the sixth wife of Manan, the elder of the tribe, is still apprehensive about the washing machine and television set up with sparrows. These are the women of "slave lat". Through them, and in honor of them, "Mohammed bin Manan" writes the history of the tribe, which migrated earlier from its pedigree and is preparing today to abandon its beginning. It is the era of political and social transformations after the Nakba, the modernity boom, and the seeds of conflict that began to grow in Palestine in the 1950s.

In his novel "Praise to the Women of the Family", Palestinian poet Mahmud Shuqair praised Palestinian women's values, customs and customs, allegiance and belonging to the invading and usurped land, and how their role contributed to establishing a state of internal strength of the cohesive family and portraying the paradoxes of many families Women in protecting and preserving them.

The biography of Manan Abdel Lat, his wives, sons and wives, their complex relations and their travels between the Orient and Morocco, and how the Manan family is a model for Palestinian families who have been prey to displacement of all kinds are explored; there are those who are displaced inside the country; there are those who tried to find themselves abroad. In addition to the reality of alienation suffered by the Palestinians and living in their land and their families, and how the occupation authorities control the people and restrict them to a certain type of decisions and emergency laws that turn their lives into hell under the tyranny exercised by them.

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