Critic Saeed Al-Suraihi described the book “The Sedition of Culture” by its author, writer Ali Faye’ Al-Alamy, as a book that combines the literary language with the language of journalism. On the board. Al-Suraihi added in the newly published book by “Tashkeel” in 80 pages of intermediate pieces that the book reveals a measure of the declared and unspoken conflict between the intellectuals of the marginal areas, a conflict imposed by the difference in vision of the nature of cultural work and its management at one time, and at another time imposed by personal interests, and the nature of The relationship with the official cultural and administrative institutions, but it is the struggle that emphasizes the efforts exerted by the intellectuals of those regions in order to promote cultural work in their regions, and to fill the void arising from the lack of sponsorship of the institutions of major cities for their activities and events.
Al-Alamy said in the introduction to the book that writing about cultural work is beautiful and enjoyable, and it will be more fun and beautiful when the writer writes about things in which he had great efforts and sacrifices, and stressed that this book comes out of the door of (ego) and enters into the door of desirable codification of a literary and cultural experience transformed with days into passion.
The book monitored in prominent headlines many cultural transformations in the life of the writer, which began with the expression class in the intermediate stage and the follow-up of sports writers in Saudi newspapers and ended with numerous literary and cultural experiences in cultural institutions and educational strongholds.
The pages of the book were not devoid of harsh criticism of the role of the intellectual, and the shortcomings of the performance of cultural institutions, in addition to personal attitudes that the writer was the focus of, and cultural work as one of its sources, but in general it was transformed by passion from personal experiences to societal actions that the writer fought himself, with his friends, and wrote them down in his book. This is for fear of being forgotten.
The book was not directed entirely at criticism and admonition, but it reviewed many societal cultural practices, highlighting what was not prominent in those activities and actions, in addition to the implicit criticism of the positions of some intellectuals and those dealing with culture in society and through some cultural institutions that were an integral part. separated from the book.
As for the title, Al-Almai hinted in the introduction to his book that sedition here bears two faces, one good and the other ugly, and he demonstrated them in the book through evidence, events, stories, and positions that he did not make up as he said, but rather rewrote them for history.
The book reviewed the journey of Al-Alamy and his intellectual friends in the region, in which money was not the only thing that lacked this experience, but rather the attitudes of the writers and the societal reluctance that, despite its fewness, gave itself the status of the majority, in addition to the intellectuals’ view of cultural activity that does not concern them with advocacy or participation and the role of the means of communication Social campaigns to intensify campaigns against this or that stimulant.
The book provided an accurate observation of the author's experience with literature and culture, which began as subjective, and with time turned into a social passion. Al-Alami described it as a story that ended and a journey that is still continuing.
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