تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2002
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:Ahmad grows up in a small Saudi village steeped in the family ties, legends, poetry, and songs of the traditional tribal culture. As he becomes a man, the cataclysmic changes of modernity spring up around him. Islam is imposing itself more and more strongly on tribal beliefs; moreover, the city ...begins to seem strangrly attractive to his young mind. Ahmad struggles to come to terms with this newly unfolding world without forsaking his village, family or Hizam, the old man who comes to epitomize the traditional life itself.
This is an honest and enchanting coming-of-age story, and a dialogue between old and new. A revealing look at the religious, social and intellectual forces at work in the Arabian peninsula, The Belt also changes conventional perceptions of the region. إقرأ المزيد