“Eves of Protection” is a biography by Dr. Hamad al-Balhid released by the Arab Institute for Research & Publishing.
Exploring the childhood phase, the book is written with a “romantic, narrative language” with which the writer sought to “control the shades of some faded events, relying on the memory of his soul and the power of his imagination to assemble shreds of small facts, and to regroup and relive them with all the emotions, fears, and memories they bring back.”
The new book features a “distinct, daring language that narrates different events and visions, whether by announcement and selection, or by hiding and omission, seeking a qualitative freedom suggested by the writing itself to face the constraints, restrictions, and circumstances of reality.
This biography is also unique because it focuses on childhood, which is uncommon in the Arabic literature.
“Childhood is probably the most amusing, yet the hardest phase that a biography writer could narrate,” said Dr. Saleh Maid al-Ghamdi, biography expert and Arabic literature professor at King Saud University.
Dr. Hamad al-Balhid is a professor of modern literature at the Literature School, King Saud University, Riyadh.
