Dhākirat al-jasad: Arabic 2016

Is one of the best-selling novels in the Arab world since it was released in 1993. It deals with an unusual love story between Khaled, an Algerian painter and the daughter of Si Eltaher, one of the great revolution martyrs who was his companion and leader in the War of Liberation. After he was introduced to a child, Khaled, who lost his hand during the war and returns to work as a painter, lives in France and meets the daughter of Si Eltaher, a young woman and a writer. In which he sees the embodiment of all the meanings he yearns for, she is the daughter and the mother and the beloved and the homeland. The impossible love story that they are living in is complicated by the emergence of Ziad, the Palestinian poet of the Fedayeen. These three destinies intersect at their dramatic climax with the tales of Algerian wealth: the rich war and the old revolutionaries who invested their salvation and benefited from its results, to take office. A text with nostalgia and nostalgia, won the Naguib Mahfouz Award for 1997.