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Mohammed Sumili is the next who has brought silver particles from the restless desert of the\u00a0Saudi Arabia. Just one hundred pages have revealed painful wandering, game of pleasure, and\u00a0eloquent articulation in the desert which is shrinking into clash point of urban boldness and\u00a0rural traditions prevailed for centuries in the Kingdom. Memories Resurrected. Among rarely\u00a0talked issues in the Saudi society are women, relationship and of course politics. The novella\u00a0has talked first two of them which have sufficiently challenged extremism, traditionalism or\u00a0anything against modern outlook. Raja Al Sanea, Madawi Al Rashid, Salma K Jayyusi, Mansour\u00a0al-Hazimi and Izzat Khattab have earlier highlighted tensions within the Islamic kingdom.<\/p>\n
The painful brief story of heavy sense of guilt, confusions over his own affairs when he was\u00a0young and role of religious authorities, economic problems which push poor parents to give\u00a0their younger daughters in wedlock of far older men. Petrol didn\u2019t bring everything to the Saudi\u00a0citizens which they aspire to have. Women are still denied driving cars, walking alone on roads\u00a0and talking taboos in public. Everybody seems to live a life which they officially required to\u00a0denounce. Religious volunteers Mutawwahs control public space, Wasta control administrative\u00a0space, Kafala manages flowing money from state to the people and desperation controls all of\u00a0them. Hasan and Ali are the just two victims of this desperation. Ali is from urban Saudi society\u00a0of Abha where his father has proximity with Wasta and he is not shied of talking flirting women\u00a0anytime and Hasan a village boy, is a religious and pious young man who could never propose\u00a0his girlfriend Rawan because of his piousness. Whenever he wishes to do, he remembers Quran\u00a0and Mutawwa, though the girl asked his opinion, he found himself only a person who \u201crespect\u201d\u00a0her. But when he was detained by Mutawwa for a crime which he never done and Wasta of Ali\u2019s\u00a0father rescued him, Hasan couldn\u2019t stop himself. A young lady at his floor successfully allured\u00a0him to do sex and he found that she is exchange of heavy debt of his father to his business\u00a0partner rather than a wife and she was in search of happiness and pleasure which her old husband\u00a0of other three wives couldn\u2019t give.<\/p>\n
But when story repeats in Hasan\u2019s own life and her daughter Moona sought to enjoy a pre-marital relationship, Hasan considered it as an insult and spot on his honor. He found it strange\u00a0that the women, who were overlooked in most aspects of life in Saudi Arabia, stood as their families’\u00a0source of honor. Yet that honor belonged to men who were often the first to destroy it when the\u00a0chance came.\u201d (p.103) Hasan like any Saudi male was offended and tried to protect family honor\u00a0and the daughter was killed, intentionally or unintentionally. The disturbed Hasan succumb to his\u00a0life-long conflicts and earlier relations with Rawan and Sarah and chose to disclose everything of\u00a0his \u2018sinful\u2019 life to his hospitalized wife through a letter which would have to reach her with news of\u00a0Hasan\u2019s suicide.<\/p>\n
Tragedies are common to human life but tragedies are becoming desirable in closed societies where\u00a0honor killing is justified by Mutawwa, Wsata and Kafala. Mohammed\u2019s plain and simple but painful\u00a0narration questions every stakeholder in this tragedy. He appears skeptic about what liberals and\u00a0Mutawwas are doing. He failed to understand how merely prayers can rescue Palestine and how can\u00a0veil be guarantor of women\u2019s dignity. He is confused to differentiate as to whom he is more afraid,\u00a0Allah or the people. Muhammed beautifully traces linkages among all cultural contradictions with\u00a0some plain language unusual for Arab and Asian readers. Muhammed Suimili has captured this\u00a0abstract confusion, tension, and contradictions in Saudi culturalscape with his words embedded in\u00a0simplicity and plainness, rather than articulation and sophistication.<\/p>\n
Arabseque Publishers has published the volume from Cairo and is also available in some\u00a0Indian book stores.<\/strong><\/p>\nAmmar Anas<\/strong> is lecturer at King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, he can be contacted\u00a0ammardas@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#105 | November 21 | ISSN 0975-3036 \ufeffSubscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) Book Review Memories Resurrected by Mohammed Sumili Arabseque Publishers, Cairo, 2010, Pages 105 ISBN 977-17-9565-1 Mohammed Sumili is the next who has brought silver particles from the restless desert of the\u00a0Saudi Arabia. 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