Bahraini Literature and Its Luminous Symbols

About this book

Between the restless waves of the Gulf and the sailors' tales the sun melted, this book is born to be a "compass" in a sea of intellectual and aesthetic transformations. It is no mere historical record, but a journey into the veins of Bahraini land, where pens were dipped in "bleeding" to write about a homeland small in geography, great in questions. Abdullah Khalifa takes us to those narrow rooms in the old cultural clubs, where young creators used to bombard with their poems and stories the castles of "social sleep." The book probes the secret of that "small oyster" that resisted the oil waves and the pollution of the age to breathe pure, free air, surveying the journey of a generation that believed the word is the spark capable of baring the moments of disappointment in life. From Qassim Haddad to Mohamed Abdel-Malek, and from Hamda Khamis to Amin Saleh, the symbols emerge like meteors lighting the sky of literature, transforming pain, poverty, and despair into creative energy transcending the islands' boundaries to address humanity. Between the covers of this.