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Ali Taha Alnobani

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Ali Taha Alnobani is a Jordanian poet, novelist, literary critic, and songwriter born in Jerash, Jordan, in 1968. He holds a bachelor's degree in Arabic Language and Literature from Yarmouk University.
His literary career spans poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and cultural journalism. His work explores human dignity, freedom, love, memory, social justice, and the complex relationship between individuals and the political and social forces shaping their lives.
His novel Venus’s Tears, originally published in Arabic and later translated into English, unfolds across two historical periods: contemporary Jerash and ancient Roman Gerasa. Through intersecting stories of love, power, family, and human suffering, the novel examines struggles that
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Beyond the Final Page: What Venus’s Tears Asks Its Readers

A woman reading among ancient stone ruins at sunset, overlooking the columns of a historic city A story may end on the page while its questions continue into the reader's life. The Questions That Remain When a Story Ends

The final page of a novel is a physical boundary, but it is rarely the true end of the experience of reading. The book closes, the characters withdraw from view, and the imagined world becomes silent. Yet something remains unsettled. A decision continues to trouble us. An in

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"Between the Crowd and Sunset — an artistic interpretation of the distance between collective expectations and individual freedom.A person may stand in the middle of a crowded city and discover that solitude has nothing to do with physical isolatio..." Read more of this blog post »
" Between the authority of ancient stone and the openness of the horizon, human freedom becomes both a promise and a risk. An imaginative artistic reconstruction, not a historical photograph. When the Human Heart Challenges AuthorityThere is a mome..." Read more of this blog post »
" An imagined meeting between the ancient world and the enduring emotions of human life. A thousand years may separate two human beings, yet a single moment of grief can seem to bring them into the same room. Their languages may be mutually unintel..." Read more of this blog post »
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“The soul is like a glass lamp, and knowledge
Is light (-giving fire), and the wisdom of God is the oil.
If it is lit, you are alive,
And if it is darkened, you are dead,”
Avicenna
كيف تصبح إنسانًا؟ by شريف عرفة
“الشخص الذي يعاني تحت وطأة ظروف قاسية، قد يتأثر تفكيره و نظرته للأمور. فمن يرى العالم و كأنه غابة قاسية لا ترحم، يكون إستعداده أكبر للتطرف و الرغبة في السيطرة على الآخرين.. لهذا يمكننا أن نفهم، لماذا ينتشر التطرف في الأوساط المتدنية إجتماعياً و تعليمياً.. فالفتن الطائفية في مصر – مثلاً – لا تحدث في المناطق الراقية بل في المناطق التي ينتشر فيها الجهل و الفقر”
شريف عرفة
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شريف عرفة
“الشخص الذي يعاني تحت وطأة ظروف قاسية، قد يتأثر تفكيره و نظرته للأمور. فمن يرى العالم و كأنه غابة قاسية لا ترحم، يكون إستعداده أكبر للتطرف و الرغبة في السيطرة على الآخرين.. لهذا يمكننا أن نفهم، لماذا ينتشر التطرف في الأوساط المتدنية إجتماعياً و تعليمياً.. فالفتن الطائفية في مصر – مثلاً – لا تحدث في المناطق الراقية بل في المناطق التي ينتشر فيها الجهل و الفقر”
― شريف عرفة, كيف تصبح إنسانًا؟: ما بعد التنمية الذاتية

Avicenna
“The soul is like a glass lamp, and knowledge
Is light (-giving fire), and the wisdom of God is the oil.
If it is lit, you are alive,
And if it is darkened, you are dead,”
― Ibn Sina (Avicena)

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