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The Village Notebook

By ممدوح حمادة

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2017

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The village once stood for a simple rhythm of life sustained by agriculture. As farming became economically impossible and migration blurred the boundaries between countryside and city, villagers carried durable customs into urban systems that demanded different behaviour. Mamdouh Hamadeh turns these collisions into pointed, compassionate stories. The Village Notebook captures the humour, pain and psychological dislocation produced when people are required to change their lives without being able—or willing—to sever their attachments to place.

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