Ali Hassans Intrige

For five years, Fathi Schîn, a well-known writer, has been subjected to a writing and publishing ban. He is considered a dissident and a miserable traitor for refusing to host a literary competition about the Great Leader on his television show, which promptly cost him his job. The writing ban would have suffocated him long ago if it weren't for his widowed mother, who supports him financially, and especially for his lover Lama, a beautiful, intelligent, and self-assured woman. However, the powerful no longer want to be satisfied with his silence; they demand his cooperation. It is precisely during the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the Great Leader's rise to power that they set a trap for him. The Syrian writer Nihad Siris vividly depicts the conditions in a totalitarian state with ironic undertones.