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Middle East Director and Editor: Ahmed Shalaby

Cover design: Mahmoud Assad

Translation: Sihem Hammouda

A novel about real life, it deals with and explores the causes and the motives of the honor crime, which is still common in many Eastern countries. Although this crime is concealed by religion, its main motives are social and primarily tribal. The novel is characterized by the fact that the suffering symptoms of the victim were under the supervision of psychiatrists, and the treatment and the way the medical body dealt with the case were also under the supervision of psychiatrists. The novel's events and, its few characters are intertwined knots that evoke the past, sometimes to build and others to destroy. We also find a conflict between an enlightened thought and another clinging to the past without considering the age, which is usually a mask that we do not know what is hidden around it.

The novel tells of a woman suffering who was subjected to attempted rape, forcing her to flee to the West to escape murder. The successive events in the West were not more merciful because of certain circumstances that returned violently to the victim the pain of the experience. The violent psychological struggle of the protagonists sinks far into the structure of a society that embraces the idea of honor killing. The experience of the novel gives the victims real hope for a less cruel life and opens doors to launch into a new future.