He asserted that women's writing in the Gulf was characterized by boldness and the silence about it

Fahd Hussein: The Gulf novel, "a surge", suffers from "diarrhea."

Fahd Hussein: “Criticism could not keep pace with the development of fiction writing in the Gulf and the Arab world.”

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The Bahraini critic, Dr. Fahd Hussein, criticized the proliferation of literary production in the Gulf region in recent years, describing this novelist boom as a "ease" in narrative or cultural writing, stressing that criticism could not keep pace with the development of fictional writing in the Gulf and the Arab world.

Dr. Hussein attributed the increasing demand for writing the novel in the Gulf, which represents a "fictional breakthrough", to several reasons, including what the novel gives in terms of temporal and spatial freedom, as well as in character building and raising multiple topics within the work more than other literary genres, to In addition to the tendency of some columnists or political writers to write fiction as a means of "eating" and making a living, even though 90% of writers in the Arab world cannot be satisfied with writing as a means of livelihood, according to what was mentioned.

During the virtual evening, organized by the Emirates Writers and Writers Union, Abu Dhabi branch, yesterday evening, under the title "The Gulf Novel: Between Reality and Expectations", and presented by the Emirati critic, Dr. Maryam Al-Hashemi, he blamed the publishing houses in the region, after they opened their agriculture to receive Any book whose owner wants to print it as long as he will pay the money, without bothering if this book represents a sign of cultural and intellectual development in the region, and with the increasing number of publishing houses, the matter has become pure business.

Social prestige

He added: “Social media also played a big role in the emergence of a large number of writers, who began writing prose thoughts on (Twitter), and after these thoughts received the support of its writer’s followers, they live with the illusion that it is a novel and collects and prints it in writing.

The transformations in the region also contributed to the occurrence of this boom, with some treating creative writing as a means of social prestige, so they sought to be referred to as a writer and novelist, and to appear in newspapers and the media in general, especially in light of the cultural influence enjoyed by the book in society. Al-Arabi, such as Naguib Mahfouz, Hanna Mina, Al-Taher Bin Jalloun, and others », stressing the need to stop in front of all this amount of literary and fictional works in particular, and to confront them, not to prevent them, but by studying, evaluating, interpreting and analyzing to reach what writings the Gulf society needs Until you add to it.

The Feminist Novel

Dr. Fahd Hussein touched on feminist literature, which is the subject of his doctoral thesis, explaining that “despite the efforts made by women in the Gulf and the Arab world in order to have a foothold in cultural and social awareness, men still have control over the abilities of writing. Creative, imposing a paternal relationship on writing, journalism, politics, and other fields.

He considered that women in the Gulf have become more daring in raising important social and intellectual issues, such as the identity of religion, thought, ideology and color, and the creative achievement presented by women in discussing these issues surpassed what was presented by men.

At the same time, Dr. Hussein reservations about what he described as "scandalous" in writing, which appears clearly in the female novel, as most of them tend to raise issues that are silent about them, such as gender, religion and sectarianism, adding: "There is no harm in discussing these matters, but with any cultural awareness From any standpoint, many of these works open the topic in search of diffusion, but do not discuss it, and when these writers discuss or criticize them, they are surprised by your speech as you are not aware of the state of development in society ».

Maturity stage

The Bahraini critic, Dr. Fahd Hussein, called on novel writers in the Gulf to turn to writing techniques, believing that the Gulf novel has reached a stage of maturity, and Gulf writers have creative, cultural and societal awareness that prepares them to write an integrated text, even if it talks about a private biography, but it remains Writing techniques are a dilemma that should be addressed.

He also pointed to the absence of police literature and science fiction, while the Sufi novel is characterized by depth and presents issues and ideas that add to the reader and society.

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