(The self and the other in the Arabic and Persian novels, audio Drums from afar, Falah Rahim, the palm trees of Hi-Bi Sir Qasim Ali Farasat) are an example

Abstract

After the research study in which we discussed the war novels of a Persian novelist, Qasem Ali Firast, and an Arab novelist, Falah Rahim, in which we discussed the image of the self and the other in the Arab and Persian novels, we found... The character of the other in the Arabic and Persian novels is one and the same, which is the image of the outgoing Baathist regime that created a state of conflict internally and externally. We mean internally what it did against the Iraqi citizen, especially the central and southern regions, in terms of destruction, devastation, killing, and marginalization. This image was drawn by the novel Falah Rahim, which made the other the hostile character embodied by the Baathist regime in all its actions. As for what we mean externally, it is the state of conflict that the Islamic Republic experienced in a war that lasted eight years, draining millions of lives and material resources. This is what Qassim Ali Firast embodied in his novel Nakhl Hai Bi Sir, which explained the defensive role of the people of Khorramshahr during the Iran-Iraq war, and how Khorramshahr suffered difficult nights, killing, grumbling, and conflict in order to defend their city. We also explained how the Baathist other tried not to make a partner for him in his decisions and directions, as he made his decision against the people without referring to any law other than the Baathist and criminal law. This also had a negative impact on the central and southern regions because they were victims of the Saddamist Baathist regime, and were forced to Obeying these criminal laws in order to try to keep up with life, nothing more, because death in these areas was the easiest thing, and mass burial was also the same; therefore, the novel The Sound of Drums from afar by Falah Rahim embodied the role of the opposition between the self and the other within the Iraqi people towards the cursed Baathist. As for the novel Nakhl Hai Bi Sirr Qasim Ali Farasat, it also meets with this novel in several areas or axes, and the first of these axes is the unity of the cursed Baathist other, meaning that in the two novels the other was the same. In the Arabic novel he was the Baathist, and in the Persian novel he was also the Baathist.