Zain Youssef
Photography: Mahmoud Raouf
Dr. Hague Abdul Hussein paid tribute to the absent present absent Tohme Farman, saying, “I would like to greet first of all the absent present novelist absent Tohme Farman, who we remember today, as I wish he was present among us, who was born in 1927 and died in 1990, and was in his early sixties.” .
“With regard to the position of Tohme Farman’s absence from women, I think that the main observation in this area can be seen that he assigned the starring role in his masterpiece “The Palm and the Neighbors” to a woman, Salima Al-Khabaker, and through it we read about the Iraqi woman who laid her eggs in one basket, she was like any other woman who aspires to marry and married a man who seems to be able to do her job, and this is what happened, but after he had an accident and this husband died, this was forced The lady, a role model for vulnerable Iraqi women, faces the brutal face of this life to support herself and the child he left her from another wife.”
She stated, “Through this novel, absent shed light on this character, and also the novel was full of other models, through which we read the suffering of Iraqi women, absent Tohme Farman is not a researcher, but a novelist who relies on insight, experience and culture that distinguishes him, and we see that he describes the poor society as equal as far as it comes to the relationship between men and women, and this is a scientifically proven issue in the light of scientific theories, you see that when they do not find anything to fight over, they are equal, and this is in the light of a well-known theory presented by him. Sociologist Lensky.”
And about the distinction absent Tohme Farman in the subject of women from others spoke critic Dr. Shuja Al-Ani, saying, “distinguish absent from the rest of the Iraqi storytellers, dealing with the subject of women, absent address the issue of women in terms of social entanglements, and through work and daily life as he did when he gave the starring role to Salima baker, and we must not forget that the palm and neighbors is a lengthy story in the name of Salima baker, is basically named Salima Baker and then turned into a novel entitled Palm and neighbors. “
He stated, “When Jalal Khaled was linked to the issue of women with the fate of the working class and in the letters of Ahmed Mujahid to Jalal Khaled from the countryside stopped at a lot of issues for women such as the killing of washing shame and “marriage Kassa”, then comes Abdul Haq Fadel in 1939, and offers us a novel entitled “Crazy”, in fact that the two characters man and woman, whose name was Safia are close to madness, a gay character up to say I am a man, although some young teenagers adore Like this woman, then came the ear of Ayoub in “Hand, Land and Water”, and gave us a Sunni model that raised the issue of land and peasant from a Marxist perspective, but absent did not raise the issue of women neither from the term sex nor from the term gender, but looked at her equal to the heroes of men, for example Alia Ibrahim in labor says “The voice of the woman is stolen and the narrator responds and the man also says his voice is dispossessed, and it is beautiful that both struggle to recover their votes, and so the woman was presented through daily life”.
On the issue of political symbolism, The Hague Abdul Hussein said, “The issue of political symbolism does not prevent us from seeing the gender aspect of the subject, today we are reviewing religions and seeing the gender point of view on the subject, we track the issue of gender in many works dating back decades and even centuries ago, there is no doubt that we re-read the legacy of a novelist with an absent weight Tohme Farman by tracking his views on the issue of women from a gender point of view, we note that women exist In all his novels, “The Offering” and “The Palm and the Neighbors”, in order to make it easier for her, especially after the death of her father.”
In the field of social research and its link to the novel and the story, Abdul Hussein spoke, saying, “In fact, social research is backward in this field, so I feel that we enter through the gate of the sociology of literature, we may find in fiction literature and later perhaps poetry, theater and art sources of inspiration, because we were socially lucky with the emergence of Dr. Ali Al-Wardi and his works, but a study in the nature of Iraqi society took the period of the sixties and glimpses in which Iraq was addressed in past centuries and reached the seventies and stopped, and studies and research began at the stage of “These studies were quickly restricted by the dominance of the political system.”
And absent Tohme Farman in this aspect indicated that “the novel labor was not the case of a number of characters who have certain problems, but it is in my opinion shed light on the rule of Abdul Karim Qassem, which describes in a number of pages during the novel the existence of assassinations and kidnappings, through which he stressed that the regime was not in control of the situation, and this in itself is a very important issue that can benefit the social researcher and give him a preliminary perception and may return to this period and track it as did pink and others.”