An Alternative Solution Is a Must

About this book

Didn't I tell you? the poet asks at the opening of this collection, as if opening the gates of deeper and more painful questions. The collection An Alternative Solution Is a Must is a cry in the face of a time in which scales have tipped, values have been lost, and truth has become illusions chased in a dense forest ruled by injustice and despair. This work is not just a collection of poems, but living testimony of a nation's pain and eloquent documentation of the individual's struggle with his bitter reality. Poet Omar Ben Jaafar Ben Ammar takes you on a poetic journey transcending time and place, where words shine as sincere cries from the heart. You find in it an echo of Gaza's voices, the agony of unending pains, and anger at a political and social reality in which reason collapses before instinct. The collection criticizes the state of a society in which the innocent is imprisoned while the criminal walks free, and describes a state in which the thief has become the trusted guardian of money, embodied in poems about elections and the mazes of a complex reality. It is poetry that refuses surrender and submission, calling instead to struggle and fight, affirming that woe and disgrace are theirs, and that the builders.