What is the story of the “parallel covers hashtag” that hit “Social Media”
"Trend" has issued parallel covers to search engines during the past few days, after it has turned into a phenomenon that has swept social media platforms, in which social media pioneers replace the titles of famous books with pictures and funny comments.
Mohamed El-Fouly, an Egyptian writer and translator, and the owner of the idea for parallel covers, said that the idea was the result of pure chance, as he used to publish on his personal page clips or pictures from old Arab films and series, and associate them with translation concerns to joke with friends.
Al-Fouli added to “Cairo 24” A few weeks ago, I came up with the idea of parallel covers, linking the titles of my 16 Spanish translations with pictures from comedies. I only shared the post among my friends this time, and three days ago, I circulated the idea to international novels;
Translated primarily because I was afraid that any Arab or Egyptian writer or author would be sensitive to the matter.
Al-Fouli explained: The original meaning was laughter and joking, but because the trend in one way or another resembles a pandemic, more than one mutant had to appear.
Al-Fouli said: I did not expect all of this to happen, and in fact I am happy that bringing joy to people's hearts is desirable, and what happened somewhat broke the traditional image taken of the Arab intellectual, which claims that he is a gloomy or irritable person. The intellectual also knows joking .
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