Only the narrative of horror seems to cancel the cultural diversity among the most impermeable Western civilisation and the Arab one

Mostafa Khalifa’s is a scream from the silence of the prisons of the regime, a cry to be heard with the hope of freeing the future.

Mostafa Khalifa’s book is not only a complaint, but also bitter reflection on the horrors of which humans are guilty.

It is an essential reading because it shows that historical truth is not considered in today’s debate on Syria. Torture, summary executions, imprisonment of women, men and children in Syrian prisons has been the basis of power of the Assad family

“Crudely realistic, Ave Maris nevertheless plays with tenderness, irony and poetry. Common sense, illusion and laughter are opposed to the barbary of dogmatisms. Against violence and corrupt powers, shine the daily kindnesses, and magical encounters allowing life to take its course.”

Sinan Antoon is another original voice of this new Iraqi narrative