“Texts in Memory,” Al Jazeera Net opens a space to savor Arabic and translated texts, for words to speak in their own tongues without intermediaries. The Syrian city of Homs suffered devastating earthquakes, but it always rose again, and in the Abbasid era it was a mecca for arts and literature.
The story began with a love relationship between a jinn rooster and a Christian slave girl from Homs. The text talks about a period in his life where he fell into financial distress and married her to earn money.