Badis: The Window of Souls

About this book

The novel Badis: The Window of Souls takes us on a deep psychological journey transcending the boundaries of reality, where present meets past and waking meets sleeping in a bewildering spiritual maze. Badis finds himself trapped inside recurring dreams that turn into suffocating nightmares. The visions begin at an abandoned archaeological site near his village, the Roman Caves, where he discovers that these nightmares are not mere idle dreams, but a window opening onto his family's secrets and his Amazigh roots. Present events interweave with old memories Badis sees in his dreams, where he meets characters from his ancestors—like Prince Bahaa El-Din Pasha and the beautiful Arenas Mazigh—revealing a love story fraught with dangers and secrets. Badis finds himself part of a history he does not know, watching events as if they were cinematic scenes, trying to solve the puzzle of these dreams that visit him whenever he exhausts himself at work. Secrets and revelations accumulate: what Badis considered nightmares turns out to be a means of communication with the past. With every dream, Badis draws closer to the hidden truth, and it becomes clear that the strange figures he sees—like Yor Abu El-Dar.