"Eid al-Riyad" by Boulos Salama

A massive, elegantly produced book of some 600 pages — the tales of the events and wars that swept, one after another, over the Arabian Peninsula, ending with the late King Abdulaziz Al Saud firmly established in power. It is the epic of the Arabs and of heroic deeds, and a eulogy of the House of Saud for courage, might, bounty, and magnanimity...

The poet Boulos Salama prefaced his epic with a study of the nature of epic and romantic poetry, and prepared the way for the long excursions before whose marvel the reader stands with folded arms! And while complaint rises on every side about the short breath of writers and poets in this age, our wounded poet defies that saying with an epic equal, by his own account, to half the Iliad of Homer.

May God prolong the life of our great master, that he may enrich our Arabic library with his abundant, exalted production...

Talks from the Heart

A benevolent outpouring of national literature, if the name may be allowed, from the pen of Mrs. Asma Tubi. Most of it consists of intimate meditations inspired by the great tragedy of Palestine, or of the thoughts and views of a militant woman of letters who has taken proud stands over the shattered society and the shattered homeland, set down faithfully by her devoted pen.. for history.

The Village Poet introduced the book, saying: "I see the specter of the catastrophe looking out from every one of your talks. And I

find a spray of the blood of your wounded heart on every path along which your pen has run..."

And he describes the author's writing thus: "Asma's literature rests upon ardent feeling and measured thought, not upon the decorated balloons of a feast-day and painted soap-bubbles. And besides its delicacy, its fluency, and its sweetness, it is rich in life, warmth, and light — as though its lines were silver wires connected to the motor of the heart from which they sprang and from which they issued."

"Talks from the Heart" by Asma Tubi is one manifestation of woman's literary patriotism, of which we boast because it has become... a rare piece indeed.

A collection of stories from the pen of Mrs. Salwa Mahmasani Moumina, published by Dar al-Ilm

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