وقائع الكتابة

Somer Shhadeh presents writing as an event—a daily occurrence that finds its place in the writer’s life. He explores it through six threads: craft, power, the reader, living, beauty, and death. Through these six dimensions, he embraces perspectives that see art as a refuge that restores the self and as a form of aesthetic healing in the face of conflict and the collapse of places. It is the testimony of a novelist from within the art of fiction and from within the experience of living amid armed conflict. The essays thus emerge as a deeply personal testimony to the power of art to become a means of survival and a lasting imprint that resides within the individual. A work that speaks about writing what writing itself cannot say.