The Blue-Collared Ones

About this book

On the borders of the sea, where shore sands meet faces wearied by toil and waves chiseled their features, the tales of the blue-collared ones are born. This book is no mere texts in Egyptian vernacular, but "painted tableaux" drawn with the heart's blood and the brow's sweat. Hassan Farid Trabieh opens back doors to souls we do not see in the bustle of cities; those wearing blue collars, carrying volcanoes of estrangement in their chests and a silence like the prayer of the thirsty. Between the covers of this work, you will find yourself riding the gypsy ship, searching for "Ibn Zaydun" in the alleys of estrangement, and whispering to Qais beneath a sky narrower than the land of fear. It is a journey progressing from "the simplest sins of poetry" to "the biography of shore sands," where laughter turns into livelihood, and tears into a struggle beneath the eyelids. The writer does not content himself with description, but sloughs off the night of the hurtful city to return to the child's innocence building dreams of sand, unafraid of a wave threatening them. "The Blue-Collared Ones" is an invitation to reconcile with defeats and wounds, it.