Brahim Al-Koni: The Amazigh language saved me from dumb

The owner of «Al-Tabr» hosted by Mohammed bin Rashid Library

Al-Koni touched on several issues during the session, which was moderated by Parwin Habib. From the source

On the sidelines of the Month of Reading, the Mohammed bin Rashid Library hosted Libyan novelist Ibrahim Al-Koni, who shed light on his literary experience, amid a remarkable presence during the session moderated by poet Dr. Parween Habib.

The creator of the novels "Al-Tabr", "The Magi" and "Bleeding the Stone" touched on the dialectic of writing outside the place, the overwhelming and continuous presence of Libya and its Sahara, the absence of Switzerland and Europe, the problems of identity and its description in his novels, the equivocations it drops, and the manifestations of women in their presence and absence.

Al-Koni began the story from his beginnings, and his association with languages, including Amazigh, Arabic, English and Russian, pointing out that Amazigh saved him from muteness, so he was spiritually associated with it, and considers himself lucky because it is the first language he spoke.

He added about his celebration of the desert and his constant interest in its worlds: «The presence of the desert in my works of fiction despite not living in it is due to several reasons, the most important of which is that I was able to interrogate the mythological element (folkloric tales), and this is due to my belief in the commandments of the first, starting with Plato and Aristotle, which calls on the creator to the need to preserve the myth, led by Socrates, who admitted to his disciples on his deathbed his mistake, because he used direct speech and abandoned the real discourse, which must be adopted as an argument, and that it is the true enlightenment. He pointed out that he writes about the Libyan environment despite his emigration away from it, because he believes that it is not important where we live, but what matters is the place where he lives in us, and the desert was his original birthplace.