White and Green

About the Book

White and Green: Seasons of Moroccan Tea is a great book in which the reader enjoys the pleasure of narration and the events that create a background for the poet’s imagination, which soars with viewless wings of poesy. The novelist’s poetic language is distinguished because it perfectly exploits figures of speech and irony. White and Green describes a journey to Morocco, the land of a thousand and one nights. Morocco is a charming country that embodies the past and the present, different cultures, identities, wars, and variable civilizations of the Romans, the Phoenicians, and the last Islamic Arabian kingdom in Cordoba, which still governs this wondrous land rich with secrets and mystery. Green Moroccan tea is sipped in cities characterized by white houses and buildings and shaded by the beautiful Andalusian architecture that distinguishes Al-Hamra Palace in Granada and Ibn Abbad Palace in Seville. It has the delicious smell of Moroccan mint, the best mint in the whole world.

About the Author

Ahmad Al Dosari is a Bahraini poet and novelist. He published many collections of poetry, novels, and literary studies. He has a PhD in literature and philosophy from University of Geneva. He has translated different books from French to Arabic. He is the author of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Opera, the first opera written in Arabic. It was performed in Doha on the largest open theatre in the whole world. Ibn Sina Opera was performed in Arabic and English by the best operatic worldwide. His novel Ibn Zuraiq Al-Baghdadi: A Passenger of Time was widely received when it was first published. Many critics admired it for being a classical historical novel and a romance. Several editions of the novel were reprinted. Dr. Al Dosari presented many lectures in different universities. In Cairo, he participated in a poetic musical evening event with the Arab musician Ahmad Mukhtar. The event had the title of Al Dosari’s famous novel The Sparrows of the Ancient. His novels—such as Ibn Zuraiq, The Sparrows of the Ancient, An Ordinary Man, No Free Zone, and Leukemia—carefully depict the human dimensions of the characters and gradually portray the concept of human existence. His condensed narrative discourse endows the novels with unlimited poetic richness. The setting in his novels swings between realism and imagination, which makes them unique and definitely preeminent.