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He remained clinging to the dream of freedom despite the calamities he was subjected to time after time, and he never lost hope.

In his last article the day before his departure, the late novelist and writer Moanes Al-Razzaz issued his farewell cry, saying, "One's friends can stay away from him if they feel unbearable. One's relatives can avoid him and avoid him. Gowani?"

In his article, Mounis continued, "Have you ever exaggerated? Ask the Arab intellectuals and creators from the Tigris to the Nile, from the Jordan River to the Auras Mountains to Jerusalem, from the internal massacre to the bloodbaths in the streets of Palestine and the mountains of Algeria... Do you see that this night has someone else?"

Despite the magnitude of the pain and gloom that accompanied him, he held on to hope, life, drawing flowers and beautiful nature over a quarter of a century of writing, until his novel "Confessions of a Silencer" - according to the Arab Writers Union - was ranked among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

stripping reality

During a cultural evening organized by the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Forum, in remembrance of the novelist and creator, Munis Al-Razzaz, entitled "Monis Al-Razzaz.. "Twenty Years of Presence Despite Absence";

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz spoke in describing his brother, saying, “Mu’nis, was the owner of a project whose title was to expose reality, to show this fragmented reality of the Arab man and the Arab state. It gradually gets hot and gets used to this reality, and if it boils without moving a finger.”

It was said in Munis Al-Razzaz: "The elite of the sayings, a true creative sociable, ever departed and aspiring to freedom, he always sought the structures of art and true creativity and the temples of beauty."

Art was an integral part of the life of the late writer Mounis.


These are some of the paintings drawn by Mounes, his artworks will be present in our library during an art exhibition.

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— Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation AHSF (@ShomanFDN) February 6, 2022

Moanis Al-Razzaz formed a literary and intellectual body that influenced the Jordanian and Arab cultural scene, and achieved an important Arab presence with literary achievements biased towards life, people and struggle, as we talk about the creator of Arabism, as the Jordanian Minister of Culture Haifa Al-Najjar says.

The topics covered in his writings were characterized - as Haifa Al-Najjar adds - with a human and global character, no less than international novelists in dealing with the existential issues of contemporary man, including anxiety, panic and alienation, and belong to the modern novel, and is characterized by research and experimentation, and the creation of new forms characterized by focusing on the internal aspect. Psychological, and non-traditional relationships, by presenting accumulated scattered texts characterized by ambiguity, problematic and complexity.

 The value of family freedom

Valentina Kassisieh, CEO of the Shoman Foundation, Valentina Kassisieh, said in the evening that Moans Al-Razzaz and his family valued freedom, so he wrote to her his promise, and remained loyal to it throughout his life.

She added that Mounis is trying to dismantle his hierarchy, this great immersion in his reading of the Arab and international scene and people's movements, which made him able to predict major events, and anticipate the inevitability of the fall of authoritarian regimes around the world.

Moanis' presence for the writer, novelist and artist, even in their absence..Monis Razzaz returns again in the presence of literature and art and his fans and students. nFGdYTpElk

— Hind Khlaifat (@hindkhlaifat) February 5, 2022

Between the novelist and the politician

The novelist and critic Hashem Gharaibeh presented in the evening testimonies and critical readings in which he said that Munis Al-Razzaz, the son of the bitter experience, was a novelist again, and a politician who went against the norm. What we do not see.

He added that Mu'nis did not seek to provide testimony about the contemporary Arab reality as much as he sought to warn against the collapse of this reality;

For him, the novel is not only a linguistic means of expressing the self and its vicissitudes, but it has made the self a listening ear and a vigilant eye, criticizing social models with their backwardness, nobility and fluctuations, and presenting them in a framework of irony and tragedies implicit in the difficult Shakespearean question of being or not being, that is the problem.

And the professor of modern literary criticism, Razan Ibrahim, recalled in the evening, "a creative self characterized by the delicateness of its sense and its quest, in its novelistic achievement, to reveal the imbalances of a reality that it experienced closely, and aspired to put it in the focus of the awareness of the recipient."

She reviewed the most important features of literary writing that characterized the achievement of Moans al-Razzaz, which in many cases did not separate from a life experience that had a great impact on him, for the father of Munis al-Razzaz was a symbol of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, although human rights for him were above loyalty to the party. Munis says about his father, and his mother, Lama'a Bseisu, was one of the pioneers of social and political work in Jordan.

Join us now in the celebration of Moans Al-Razzaz: “Twenty Years of Attendance Despite Absence.” The ceremony will be attended by Dr. Omar Razzaz, HE Mrs. Haifa Al-Najjar, Mrs. Valentina Kassisieh, the novelist Hashem Gharaibeh, Dr. Razan Ibrahim, and the critic Fakhri Saleh, and the celebration will be presented by Dr. Amani Suleiman. .

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— Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation AHSF (@ShomanFDN) February 7, 2022

The concerns of the Arab situation

Critic and translator Fakhri Saleh said that Mu'nis grew up in a house concerned with the geopolitical, ideological, and intellectual situation of the Arabs in the twentieth century;

He greatly influenced the way he built his fictional worlds;

At least in the first three novels that he completed in the eighties of the last century, and constituted the mediator of the decade in his narrative achievement, which are: “Alive in the Dead Sea” (1982), “Confessions of a Silencer” (1986), and “The Labyrinth of the Bedouins in the Mirage Skyscrapers.” (1986).

According to critics and friends of the late Razzaz, it is not possible to understand his fictional works without representing the family background that is strongly present in most of his works, and forms the subjective aspect in them, where the subjective element is intertwined with the political, intellectual and imaginative.

On the sidelines of the celebration, a group of paintings drawn by Munis Al-Razzaz was shown, in addition to the screening of the film "The Biography of the Creator of Munis Al-Razzaz", as well as a video clip that included testimonies of a group of young writers entitled "This is how I read Munis Al-Razzaz."