Matoun Publishing and Distribution House has published the novel “Official Times” by writer Waheed Al-Ghamdi, which is the first of his fictional production, and its events relate to the period of almost two hundred years ago, in the southern region called (Al -Sara ).
The events begin from the moment in which the tragic news reaches the elders of the tribe, and then take a gradual escalation, leading to defining moments in the history of man and place.
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The novel is of a realistic historical type, but it does not present itself as a documentation of history, but as a realistic image of it, inspired by the anthropological elements that shaped man and place in that period. Ottomans at the time.
Writer Waheed Al-Ghamdi says of his novel: “It is a work that many people will love, and many people will hate too. But in both cases the novel is just a cry of values. It is an attempt to say something about those lost values which were the reflection of a person who resisted the ferocity and cruelty of life, defying all his vicissitudes, singing, dancing, loving and saying poems.
