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Tal Al-Ubaid / Mahmoud Al-Jaidi
In the novel "Tal al-Ubaid" by Mahmoud Al-Jaidi, the writer deliberately chose this title for his novel. It was not just an ordinary title, but rather the writer chose it in order to reflect the intellectual and human dimensions present in the novel. Al-Jaidi here did not only write horror, but he wrote literature whose outer shell was horror. He also sheds light on many intellectual, humanitarian, social, and sometimes political topics, making the reader stop for a moment in order to think about a topic, through a dialogue that takes place between two of the novel's characters about... The state of war and revolution in the Arab world, and what the situation has become.
We find that the writer does not offer solutions, but rather questions that ravage the reader's mind and thought, and the horror in this novel is manifested in revenge, which is not revealed to the reader except at the conclusion of the novel, so its reasons and motives appear to us, as it contributed to the presence of a mysterious character who is in Tal Al-Ubaid and with him a vengeful being called "Al-Duwais." ", which represents the most horrific images of horror for all the characters in the novel, as each of them has a human story and a spiral in which it revolves from the past to the present. Al-Jaidi showed his creativity in embodying the character of Sheikh Arafa. He described with great skill the preparation rituals and their details, combining myth and reality, and the difference between quackery and the presence of jinn in the human world. Then he made the reader wonder what comes next in the end? And through a legendary scene, the dawais once appeared. Another is human revenge and the mission of the jinn in that. Is revenge and revenge for an oppressed person worth destroying innocent people in order to take away the rights of an innocent person who was enslaved one day? .
From the atmosphere of "Tel al-Ubaid": "He watched the dead emerge from their graves, covered with white shrouds, staggering like drunks. They all stood in front of the graves, and in one movement and at the same time their gazes rose toward the sky, and then they froze! They were looking at something high and invisible."