"A Gold Box"
(A story lies on the domes of magic)
For the poet and writer: Waheeb Nadeem Wahbah
By: Amaal Awwaad Radwaan
Translated by: Hassan Hegazy Hassan
When creativity is a purposeful and directed to Goodnes, and
when its pillars are love, music, freedom, the beauty of nature and
the peaceful reconciliation between man and creatures, and promotion of these
values and strengthening them in the souls, through the integration of
science fiction and reality, so this sublime creativity must be commended and
highly praised, and should be traded in renewed and repeated publications, And
here it is The "Gold Box" for the poet and writer Waheeb Nadeem
Wahbah, and its letters that are rolling again on the printing equipment in Dar
al-Huda, to issue the second edition 2012 new version and a new review,
immediately after the publication of his book "Keys of Heaven," which
won the Lebanese Award for this year 2012.
"A Gold Box" is a story that suits young and adults,
in an elegant edition with thick skin and glossy paper, the story is also
embellished with beautiful graphic, expressive and attractive drawings,
supervised by the Persian Artist Fatima Bour Hatami.
In essence, the story moves away from the creation of rosy
worlds, taking the adolescent away from his reality, but it deals with a
subject of social and psychological dimension, and aims to instill immortal
values such as tolerance, love, honesty, cooperation and harmony, and
developing in the adolescent's affiliation to the universal human identity, the
story depends mainly on the foundation of love, music, freedom and the beauty
of nature, besides the peaceful reconciliation between man and creatures, and
the promotion of these good values in the hearts of readers.
The story is interesting, purposeful and directed towards goodness and
creativity, talking about an educational journey across the globe, integrates
science fiction and reality, and focuses on the element of imagination, the
fantasy, which has become a strategic motive in the culture of children and the
adolescent, especially in the age of science and technology, the spirit of the
scientific researches has become a strong motive, spreading the spirit of
research, innovation and creativity among the adolescent people.
The Poet Waheeb Wahbah is forming in the story a unique, dynamic
and beautiful world, full of imaginative and legal dreams that can be achieved,
through the love of adventure and the relentless pursuit without fatigue,
reaching all the banks and touching them easily, without difficulties, telling
about the habits and traditions of peoples, the nature of their lives, and the
different shapes and lifestyles they practice and live.
The story lies on the domes of magic, and embellished by the
language of a light charm, entering the pleasure to the heart and mind! In a
language close to the world of adolescent people, with rich, easy, emotional,
tender and simple language, shaping events, mixing between the art of
interesting narration and photography, and carefully pulsing with poetic,
clarity and simplicity, employed in a simple manner and skillfully woven
without pretence, as if he has overloaded it with the secrets and the
mysterious sides of the adolescents and their worlds!
The style is smooth and interesting without ambiguity,
ranging from easy to difficult. The story is formulated in a way that captures
the reader without falling into the trap of preaching. It is interspersed with
a civilized practice that combines sense and feeling, and dealing with thought
and body. It exceeded the partial to the entire. The characters in the story
combine and move spontaneously and smoothly, mixing between descriptive,
narrative, between narration and fantasy, leaving an effective impact on
the soul and memory!
The magician does not take a picture of a bad or a good, but a
neutral role is almost a parental role and moral motivation, watching closely,
and leave taking the decision in the hands of the adolescent, until she reaches
the end of the journey, and she must choose after she has been released from her
gold and magic box!
The girl is aware of her faculties of her intelligence and
beauty, and knows well her potential abilities that are inherent in the depths
of herself, and despite her imprisonment in the box of injustice and darkness,
she was seeing a bright focus at the end of the horizon, calling her to achieve
her buried dreams.
The Golden Box is a symbol of imprisonment, injustice,
submission, likeness and the dryness of life. It works to oppress and suppress
the adolescent within the bottle of denying of his self, imagination and
creativity, without renewing even if he reproduces, and thus becomes a
graveyard of conscience and emotion!
Sleeping may seem natural, but symbolically meant isolation and
idleness, which soon awakened the seed of the girl's desire for freedom, and
the aspiration to open-mindedness to the cultures of the world!
The places and times in the story are subject to the imagination
of the reader, and they do not pass in their natural form, although there is an
apparent behavioral stability, but inwardly; they are flashy messages directed
to a young adolescent generation of girls and boys so as not to fall as an
easy catch for temptations or seduction when they are tested and are apt to
face experiments during the course of their life. Moreover, they inspire
adventure, risk-taking and prevention, and motivating perseverance in taking
preventive measures.
Why does the poet Waheeb Wahbah resort to the story rather than
to poetry? Does he keep pace with the experiences of our emerging generations
of transformations and radical changes, wandering in aspirations, questions,
dreams and anxieties, drawing from their living reality the events of his
stories, with branched and interrelated details?
Is the story for him just a way to pass the leisure of this
category, or does he believe that the story covers the needs and aspirations of
the adolescent, and affects his behaviors in the case of proper reporting?
Is he looking forward to contributing to the creation of an
effective and creative recipient, and thus trying to establish an attentive and
alert generation worthy of celebrating and
supporting its capabilities and taking care of them?
In the seventeenth century, the stories of magicians moved from
oral narratives to the written story. These stories were aimed at adults until
the 18th century, and were written and reformed again by several authors such
as Brothers Grimm, Peru and others who mainly enriched the children's library
with wonderful stories, some are translated into Arabic, and in the twentieth
century moved to the big screen!
Why does the poet Waheeb Wahbah resort to the magic form in the
story? Is it because these stories are the product of many cultures and have
attraction and popularity on a large global scale? Is it difficult to explore
and cross the daily disturbing and puzzling events, only through a magical form
can promote his imagination and language to a wider horizon, or it can mount up
to a magical world, to give events more attention, through which to overcome
the prohibitions, so it will be easy for him to dazzle the adolescent with the
elements of imagination and the kinds of curiousness?
Does this strange magical universe increase moral and
psychological dynamism, taking on the problems of life a bright plot that opens
the horizons of dreams and imagination?
Waheeb Wahbah, poet and playwright, has many plays and
poetic works: "The White Angel", "Gifts and Kisses",
"The Breast of his walls", "You are sweeter",
"The impact of The Horses' hoofs", "The Crazy and The
Sea", " A Window of Death and Other", "Steps on the
body of the desert", "The Keys to Heaven", "The Book of
Paradise", "The Bridge", and dozens of works in Arabic,
translated into several international languages.
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A Gold Box: As it is stated: (The story is a journey to the
seven world regions, adventures in fictional imaginary worlds in a human fabric
linked to reality and imagination, and the use of the song to liberate the self
and the land).
References:
- Writer of the article: poet and literature - Amaal Awwaad
Radwaan – has some poetry collections and several creative works.
-A Gold Box: a story for the young - the author - the poet and
writer: Waheeb Nadeem Wahbah.
-A Gold Box: The story is a journey in the seven regions of the
world for the liberation of the self and the land and to return to the
homeland.
-Graphics: Fatima Bour Hatami.
-Number of pages of the book 64 with graphics / number of
drawings 12 with cover / book size 17 width / length 25 / year's version -
Issued in Arabic in two editions. First Edition 2009. Second Edition -
2012. Third edition translated into foreign language 2012. In 2013 - presented
to the stage of theater – the recorded version in the library of international
lighthouse – For the reader Abeer Shaheen Khatib in 2017.
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