The Dog-Man - Texts from the Mud of What Happened

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The Dog-Man - Texts from the Mud of What Happened by Majed Abdel-Hadi... Majed Abdel-Hadi distributes the texts of this book into seven chapters that include atrocities, tales, ISIS-like behavior, leadership, illuminations, ignorance, and betrayals, in a skillful endeavor that urges the reader to a kind of biased complicity towards what the indications behind each chapter lead to, and towards what they also forbid in more than one way; because the meaning of the beast may match or even compete with the meaning of ignorance between snakes, rodents, and insects necessary to achieve ecological balance, and others that are only released to prey, sting, and impose the law of the jungle; It is no secret that Abdel-Hadi's analogies, without any ambiguity or obfuscation, refer to despotic politicians and rulers by name and their catastrophes, within unambiguous political, social, economic, cultural, and moral representations. Because these texts draw upon a broad, expansive, and open pluralism, Abdel-Hadi does not hesitate to employ sophisticated language and complex forms. Therefore, the experienced reader will find no difficulty in discovering, within these texts, various forms of writing: journalistic reportage, literary reflection, philosophical contemplation, intellectual debate, and the narrative tendency and approach to the short story are also present. Indeed, one can discern more than one level of poetic expression and the use of the prose poem. “Blood begets blood,” Abdel-Hadi reminds us, leaving his captivating texts, imbued with truth, justice, freedom, progress, and beauty, to also beget our biases and incite them.