Descendants of Urshanabi: A Novel
(أحفاد أورشنابي رواية)

Name: Descendants of Urshanabi: A Novel
Author: Barada, Haitham Behnam

Title	Descendants of Urshanabi: A Novel
Title Original	أحفاد أورشنابي رواية
Author	Barada, Haitham Behnam
Author Original	بردى، هيثم بهنام
Publication Date:	1436
Publication Place	Abu Dhabi, UAE - Abu Dhabi, UAE: Thaqafa Publishing and Distribution
Subject	History
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	135
Physical Dimensions	135 صفحة
Library:	University of Minnesota Libraries
Library Asset ID	ISBN: 9789948446590, ISBN: 9948446593
Record ID	cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_151276563
Library Location	Request
Date	1436
Notes	Urshanabi is the navigator of Utunopishtim, whom the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, the hero of the epic named after him, crossed with his boat from the waters of death before and after Gilgamesh obtained the herb of immortality. It was stated in the back cover of the novel that: History is the memory of time - there is no doubt, there is no debate about it, and there is no escape from accepting it as an established truth - this is an established axiom. Literature, in all its forms, whether it is a circulating myth transmitted orally through the ages or on parchments, parchments, or pages, tried to identify with history and describe events with transparency and credibility. Some myths, stories, novels, and epic poems succeeded, gaining a place for themselves in the Levant through written narrative and poetic narratives and passed on from generation to generation. He continued, "While others that deliberately falsified the facts were lost to the winds, neglect, and oblivion, it is no wonder that some myths, stories, and biographies remain, like the Phoenix burning and being born with its ashes, over time, renewed and cloaked in life. Based on this understanding, I wove my novel (Descendants of Urshanabi) when it reported, with all honesty, the events of a village in the north of my homeland, Iraq, during the days of World War I, in which the people of Iraq, the Levant, and Lebanon were ravaged by its fires." And others... when its children and youth, its men and its elderly, were led to be firewood for the fires of the fiercest war that raged for four years, and this heinous practice was called (travelling) (travel by land)... He also recounts, “I wandered through the memory of an old man in his eighty years with the details of those days filled with sadness, tragedy, and death, of a sleepy, quiet estate in the north of my homeland, which was bereaved by the two occupations, the Ottoman who It took more than four centuries of time and turned all parts of this rich, authentic country into a desolation with backwardness, poverty, and ignorance tormenting within it. And its other counterpart, the British occupation after the war that culminated in the Sykes-Picot and San Remo Treaties, which according to their details placed our countries under the yoke of the mandate and occupation. I sculpted its language by combining contemporary language with all its implications and complex syntactic structure, with the storyteller’s method and his legendary tone, leaving the reader with intermittent breaths wandering into the space of the memory café, and thus - in my opinion - I did not cut off the paths of encounter and sublimation with the recipient.
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Descendants of Urshanabi: A Novel

(أحفاد أورشنابي رواية)

Author Barada, Haitham Behnam

Author Original بردى، هيثم بهنام

Publication Date 1436

Publication Place Abu Dhabi, UAE - Abu Dhabi, UAE: Thaqafa Publishing and Distribution

Subject History

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 135

Physical Dimensions 135 صفحة

Library University of Minnesota Libraries

Library Asset ID ISBN: 9789948446590, ISBN: 9948446593

Record ID cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_151276563

Library Location Request

Date 1436

Notes Urshanabi is the navigator of Utunopishtim, whom the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, the hero of the epic named after him, crossed with his boat from the waters of death before and after Gilgamesh obtained the herb of immortality. It was stated in the back cover of the novel that: History is the memory of time - there is no doubt, there is no debate about it, and there is no escape from accepting it as an established truth - this is an established axiom. Literature, in all its forms, whether it is a circulating myth transmitted orally through the ages or on parchments, parchments, or pages, tried to identify with history and describe events with transparency and credibility. Some myths, stories, novels, and epic poems succeeded, gaining a place for themselves in the Levant through written narrative and poetic narratives and passed on from generation to generation. He continued, "While others that deliberately falsified the facts were lost to the winds, neglect, and oblivion, it is no wonder that some myths, stories, and biographies remain, like the Phoenix burning and being born with its ashes, over time, renewed and cloaked in life. Based on this understanding, I wove my novel (Descendants of Urshanabi) when it reported, with all honesty, the events of a village in the north of my homeland, Iraq, during the days of World War I, in which the people of Iraq, the Levant, and Lebanon were ravaged by its fires." And others... when its children and youth, its men and its elderly, were led to be firewood for the fires of the fiercest war that raged for four years, and this heinous practice was called (travelling) (travel by land)... He also recounts, “I wandered through the memory of an old man in his eighty years with the details of those days filled with sadness, tragedy, and death, of a sleepy, quiet estate in the north of my homeland, which was bereaved by the two occupations, the Ottoman who It took more than four centuries of time and turned all parts of this rich, authentic country into a desolation with backwardness, poverty, and ignorance tormenting within it. And its other counterpart, the British occupation after the war that culminated in the Sykes-Picot and San Remo Treaties, which according to their details placed our countries under the yoke of the mandate and occupation. I sculpted its language by combining contemporary language with all its implications and complex syntactic structure, with the storyteller’s method and his legendary tone, leaving the reader with intermittent breaths wandering into the space of the memory café, and thus - in my opinion - I did not cut off the paths of encounter and sublimation with the recipient.

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