The Thorn Shadow,a realistic novel by Lamine Saidi that triggers the hidden and abandoned Arab issues.
The Thorn Shadow is Lamine Saidi’s fifth released novel after The Hustle Of The Sightless,The Last Exile,The Women’s City and I Love Her With No Memory.All his novels are translated into various languages.The Thorn Shadow highlights realistic issues in Tunisia and the Arab world in a new style,fluent language and modern approach that reveal Lamine Saidi’s ingenuity in cutting with the classic Arab literature in most aspects.The Thorn Shadow mirrors the daily struggle of Arab society for decent life and digs into both the psychological features of the individual and community to prove that inner conflicts in Man are much more serious than of others.In fact, the Arab citizen has not grasped yet the roots of his psychosocial troubles interrelated to religion society and politics particularly scholars who suffer constant inner conflicts as they have not yet seen what they are required to do in their fields.The educated citizen wonders why he fails to find alternatives for all his society’s problems.Is this dilemma due to him or to his community that has not grasped the Arab scholar’s output? Thus,the latter’s alienation is deepened after his failure to support his society at such hard Arab cultural and social circumstances…
Not only does The Thorn Shadow dive into the actual Arab conditions by demonstrating the oppression,absence of justice and the enormous soread of corruption…but it also prospects a potential society and urges the scholar to be a major member in reform since he is responsible for his community …Furthermore, Lamine Saidi,the novelist,compares the Arab society to others.He focuses on the Arab civilization’s regress and urges the citizens to work hard and the scholar to assume his duty of reform.This is why we assert that The Thorn Shadow is a novel which deeply demonstrates the veiled and abandoned Arab societies ‘ issues…
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