He broke with the novel "Zareeb the slaves" suffering the love of the masters in the time of slavery

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During the holy month of Ramadan, we present to you the series "Iftar with a novel", and we present through the presentation of one of the major Arabic novels. We present to you today the novel "Zareeb Al Abeed" by the Libyan novelist Najwa Ben Shtawan, published in 2016 by Dar Al Sagy in London. The "Short" final list of the 2017 Arab International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

The novel chronicles the sequence of some "slaves" in that spot of the earth, and sheds more light on their habits, cultures and songs, and of course their dreams are never complete, and the story deepens in the tragedy of those who ended up in "Zaraib".

The story revolves around the lives of slaves amid the ruins of the end of the "Ottoman occupation" of Libya, and before the entry of Italian colonialism, and the novel specifically tells the story takes many axes, the most important story of "Atiqah," the product of a forbidden relationship between Mohammed, "white" and compensation, "maid" She has a family of Mohammed to throw away an old slave among the slaves in Zaraib.

The father sends his son "Mohammed" in a trade to keep him away from his sweetheart, and his mother wipes out a "compensatory" liquid in an attempt to abort her fetus, to be married to one of the slaves, when Mohammed returns from the trade trip knows that his family had killed his baby and sent his sweetheart to where not The journey of the search for "Zraib al-Abeed" reveals the cover of the silence from the history of slavery in Libya, that black history, whose effects are still valid until today.

Through this love story, "Zraib Al Obeid" raises the cover from the history of slavery in Libya, a black history whose effects are still present today.

Najwa Ben Shtawan is a Libyan university professor and novelist. She was born in 1970. She published two novels: "The Horse Bar" and "Orange Content" in 2008. In addition to three stories and a playwright, Among the best 39 Arab writers under the age of forty, and included her story "biography of the blessing and piano" in the anthology of "Beirut 39.