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After the first book presented to him by the professor of Arabic language in the preparatory stage «Dr. Issa Bani Hammad», his personal library became teeming with books on the history of mankind and the Arab and Islamic histories, the history of different sciences among Arabs, different civilizations and political and historical narratives, and Ahmed Al Hashemi became a lover of reading.
And here is the young citizen Ahmed Al Hashemi now, at the age of 26, publishing his first novel, “Ewan Al Rasheed”, which was launched at the Sharjah International Book Fair in its last session.
Al-Hashemi, who has been working in the field of government communication for four years, during that period organized many national, community and governmental events and events, and also worked on a number of strategic and development projects.
He is a guest at a number of local conferences, most notably the Sharjah Government Communication Forum in 2013, he attended a number of external conferences representing the Emirates, including a workshop on “Gulf citizenship”, in the State of Kuwait organized by the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the “electronic media” seminar organized by Gulf Sports Media Federation in the Sultanate of Oman, in addition to participating as a volunteer in dozens of local and Arab events and events.
He holds a number of important awards, such as the Oxford University Short Story Writing Award, and the “Man of the Year” award at Dubai Technology College for students in 2011.
Fun to travel
Al-Hashemi finds in travel a special pleasure and opportunity to visit the civilizations he has read about, as travel is a wide door towards seeking knowledge through meeting different peoples and cultures, and he says: In our Arab environment, I finally visited the city of Cairo and in addition to its pyramids, I looked at the castle of Salahuddin and Al-Azhar and its mosques that tell chapters of Various historical stories. I visited Greece and Italy in earlier times and learned about Roman civilizations there, in addition to India, Azerbaijan, Kenya, and a number of different European countries.
He continues: “Our presence in a country like the Emirates, and in light of this leadership that distinguished itself from the leaders of the world by providing the maximum possible for young people in order to develop their professional and leadership capabilities and skills in a way that enables them to obtain accumulated experiences in a record time short of that tens of years needed by members of other regions to achieve Their goals, what motivated us young people to work hard using that helped us young adults eager to work, and our mature minds with accumulated experiences, and our dreams that our great aspirations drive towards the advancement not only of our homeland, but all the Arab societies around us ».
His ambitions are many and varied, for him and the children of his generation of citizen youth, as he and the rest of the youth are betting on them to rational leadership to promote the growing growth in the future, so that each of them will be in his position and his position as the best manager, the best writer, the best engineer, the best doctor, the best security man, the best chemist, And perhaps even the best astronaut, all fields in various disciplines are now available in the Emirates and at the highest levels, and its aim is to delight people and achieve the continuous progress of humanity.
Sports magazine
During the study period at the Dubai College of Technology for Students, Department of Business Administration, the young citizen Ahmed Al Hashemi, along with his colleagues who are on the seats of the study, published a sports magazine, which bore the name “Rock in Ball”, and he took over the editor-in-chief, and during 2010, they issued several numbers starting with the number Of the 2010 World Cup, and organized a number of major sporting events in the name of the magazine.
Ewan Al-Rasheed
“Ewan Al-Rasheed”, which saw the light in the 35th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair, from the edition of Medad for Publishing and Distribution, the first edition, 2017. The Ewan, as it is known historically, is a spacious council surrounded by three walls surmounted by a ceiling, which, according to Al-Hashemi, is the first historical novel to address Harun Al-Rashid’s time, and focuses on some historical aspects and personalities that lived in that period, and the events of that time and compare them with what is going on in this time.
The idea of the novel lies in his attempt to shed light on these accomplishments in the time of Al-Rashid in particular and the Arab-Islamic heritage in general, and what distinguished it in that era where the house of wisdom, coexistence between different cultures, sects and sects, lost today, and religious tolerance.
Al-Hashemi based his account on important historical sources and references, and he spent more than four months turning the pages of history to verify the information, its accuracy and authenticity, and then how to use it and use it in the novel, as documented information and then woven it into a historical novel, and he intended to complete a historical book, but he soon What changed its direction in order to accomplish a historical novel, targeting the new generation and the younger generation, who according to his opinion will be inclined to read a historical novel better and easier than reading a solid historical book.
Throughout its pages, the novel deals with something of politics, glimpses of social life, a mention of some of the nation’s men and women, aspects of tolerance and justice known in Islamic history, and highlights a prominent era in the era of Islamic history and deals with axes such as innovation, progress, and technology among Arabs in those times, And reviewing aspects of their progress in medicine, mathematics, administration sciences, and others, and presenting them in a narrative form that makes history an accessible material.
Al-Hashemi has used more than 20 reliable historical sources, such as the works of Ibn Katheer, Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi, Al-Jawzi, Ibn Khaldoun and others, to produce valuable historical material that adds an added benefit to its reader.
In the pages of the novel, a journey from today to that time, and events from the seventh century to the twenty-first century, in which politics, society, culture and public life motivate the reader to follow and read until the end.
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