Khalil Mabrouk-Istanbul

The young Syrian journalist and activist Hadi al-Abdullah does not care much about his novel's genre. He knows that those who wander between his arms will drown in identifying the "critical situations" that Syrians have lived through in eight years of their revolution.

In his book, which was officially launched on Saturday evening at the Arabic Network for Research and Publishing in the Turkish city of Istanbul, Abdullah tells many of the stories of death and life that accompanied him and his comrades in the journey to record the testimony of the cause of his people.

He does not see in any case in his book - issued by the "Bridges" for translation and publishing in Istanbul - a historical document as much as it is a living testimony to the reality that the Syrians still interact with him at home and in the diaspora.

Abdullah says to Al Jazeera Net that he tried in the book to convey his story with the four martyrs Raed al-Faris, Khaled al-Essa, Hamoud Junaid and Trad al-Zuhuri, who lived by the revolution and whose story resembles the story of one million martyrs in Syria.

He is one of the Syrian media and activists who have accompanied the events of the Syrian revolution since its inception and documented many of its stories.He was born in Qusayr, Homs, in 1987, and won the "Journalism" awards from Reporters Without Borders and the German Press Award in 2016.

Syrian and Arab youths attend "critical cases" (Al Jazeera)

Costly Covenant
"I conveyed the Covenant to the martyrs through a paragraph in the book called the Covenant assigned to tell the story of the injury suffered with Khaled Al-Essa in 2016."

Anyone who knows the relationship between the martyr Abdullah and the martyr Al-Isa understands how the story of "critical cases" was born and understands the secret of the warm welcome that the author gave to the martyr's mother when she attended the announcement of his book.

In 2016, the two comrades went to the Jisr al-Haj area of ​​Aleppo to document a massacre committed by the Syrian regime there.As they were busy filming the incident, Assad's helicopters returned to drown the place with drums of death, and both of them were shot in the head before recovering.

After that incident, Abdullah felt bitterly losing his friend and asked him to promise him to preserve himself and not endanger his life, but Alissa refused and asked his companion to promise him to complete each other's march in the event of his martyrdom, and this was what he was.

Al-Abdallah asserts that the 192-page book "Critical Cases" is a personal experience in which he tried to live the revolution again and tell people how he lived the event himself, and how he felt since his first demonstration to date.

He points out that all the facts in the book are not confused with any word or line of the imagination of the author or editor, explaining that it will ensure more facts that he retrieved after sending the book for printing in later editions.

Al-Abdullah during his talk about his author (Al-Jazeera)

The story of a people
The narrative of the young Syrian is crowded with blood and smells of gunpowder emitted from the barrels of death in Homs, Qalamoun, Damascus countryside and Qusayr, but he does not hesitate to attribute the lead role in all those facts to his comrades who destroyed the path of the revolution.

In front of dozens of young Syrians and Arabs, Abdullah said that the idea of ​​collecting his observations in a book was born after the martyrdom of Al-Essa, who left his pain in great pain that led him to consider suicide.

He pointed out that his friend, editor Jude, suggested that he write all the observations he had witnessed on the Syrian revolution, provided that Jude is responsible for editing this book, which does not carry literary pictures as much as it tells the story and evidence of the days of the revolution.

The name of the book is linked to Abdullah's study of the course "Critical Care" at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Homs, before going to master's degree in this specialty, he believes that all the people of Syria and lived in critical situations.