Amman, The writer Safaa Al-Habal recounts in her new book “Thirty Wars ... and Love”, the details and manifestations of the war in an abstract manner, so the reader takes with her multiple representations of the war and love through open texts, in which she combined the narrative and poetic souls. The book includes seventy texts through which the author raised many questions and attempted to move the concept of war beyond what is seen temporally and structurally. The war, according to her vision, goes beyond the meaning of conflict using the lethal machine, to a person’s struggle with his inner world, and his struggle with everything that surrounds him.

The author believes that the true meaning of the homeland is embodied in life, and that war erases life and destroys the homeland. She says, “The life that surrounds us from every side is a homeland in itself, very similar to a scarf that the grandmothers weave with the warmth of their hearts and hands, making the past and the present with stories while we live the story. I live the story ... (all the grains of your sand) I repeated for many years with no certainty, and now I do not repeat it, but it is letters that fill me with certainty, not belonging to wishes. They, rather, are lines that I line up making sidewalks for madmen like me. (All your dew shadows) is nothing but a cloud that blurs our dreams with dirt, so they come back to grow, they are all ours.”

The author reveals that she addresses through these texts her past thirtieth years, from which the title of the work issued by “Now Publishers and Distributors” was derived. She says, “What will I say to those years that have passed without my notice (...) I bid farewell this era with mint, receive what will come with love, and I will end it with a cup of coffee.”

It is worth mentioning that the author is active in volunteer work and philanthropic initiatives. Prior to this work, she published a novel entitled “My destiny is a butterfly” (2013).

(ONA)