Khawla Hamdi

Khawla Hamdi

A Tunisian writer born 1984, Teaching Information Technology in King Saud’s University in Riyadh.

She had a degree in mechanical engineering and a masters degree from management School - Saint Etienne - France in 2008.

Got her PHD in Operations Research “a branch of Applied Mathematics” from University of Technology of Troyes - France - 2011.

She wrote 4 best selling novels.

30 July

Ayn Al Mafar “Where to Escape!”

The Novel goes back reviewing what happened after the Tunisian revolution, A story about the disappointment following the unfinished Arabian revolutions.

“not revolutions just buzz rumors” as said by Tunisian Layla, Egyptian Sawsan and Syrian Nazar.

Layla comes back home from Switzerland to think about fringed relations, revolted country and the swollen by his past “Feras” starting a journey to really know her home country who she only knew about from her father’s stories sailing in sea of meanings of home and revolutions.

This Novel talks about a very sensitive situation, Arab and muslim refugees life in France, how hard it can be to blend in with the French society with different ways, traditions, believes and religion.

It tells us about Jasmin the muslim girl with hijab (head-scarf) and what problems she faces because of that, and alternately the Moroccan Omar, who is a young scientist researching cold fusion to get clean energy source. but something goes wrong and an explosion happens, so he finds himself facing jail time as a terrorist.

and Raneem the liberal Egyptian girl who are already lived her life as one of the society defending Omar as she believes he is not a terrorist.

 

30 July

An Tabqa “To Stay”

Nader Al Shawy, an illegal immigrant reached French Land in 2004 by one of the “Death Boats” coming from Algrea, his son Khaleel, the young attorney nominated to be in the French Senate by 2035. who discovers the history of his father when he gets some letters with a bullet casing..

The Novel sheds light on the Arab refugees problems in Europe, specially France, most importantly the double identity, between blending in and hanging to the roots..

terrorism, from the Algerian Black Decade to the Paris 2015 attacks.

also showing the horrible face of the illegal migration experience, racism facing immigrants in Europe which is not at all what they though of an “Earthly Heaven”..

 

The story revolves around “Reema” the Muslim girl from Tunisia, she lost her parents, her mother’s last words to her Jew neighbor “Jacob” that he raises her as a muslim, the young girl grows older and start to wear the hijab “head scarf” and begin to treat “Jacob” as a stranger, “Tania” his wife then asks him to choose between “Reema” who he loved as his own children and her. so he sends her to his sister “Rachel” in Lebanon, things get complicated when she have to relocate because of “Rachel’s” husband who mistreat her. so she lives with “Rachel’s” friend “Sonia”who used to live in Tunisia too but escaped her abusive husband with her two daughters “Nada” and “Dana” to Kana - Lebanon. then all there lives get really complicated.

A story about Humanity, Religions and Love.

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