Ahmed Mansoor

Monday, October 2, 2023 05:18 PM

The family of the Syrian novelist, poet and screenwriter held a funeral today Khalid KhalifaHis body, from the “Lala Mustafa Pasha” Mosque in Damascus, left our world yesterday, passed away at the age of 59, and his burial place was buried in Al-Taqaliba Cemetery, 2 Martyrs..

Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964 in Aleppo. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1988. A member of the literary club at the university, he wrote poems, plays and some documentaries as well as short and feature films. “Bab al-Maqam.” He also established his friends at the University of Aleppo, Aleph magazine..

His first novel “The Deception Keeper” was published in 1993, while his second novel was published in 2000 titled “The Notebooks of the Gurbad”. His third novel, “Fame of Hate,” was published in 2008. It attracted worldwide media attention and has been translated into many languages.

In 2013, Khaled Khalifa’s novel “No Saxons in the Kitchens of This City” won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, one of the Arab world’s highest literary awards. In 2016, his masterpiece “Death is hard work” was published, after which his novel “No One Prays for Them” was published in 2019, recently celebrated by foreign media. A few months before his death, especially last November, he published a book “On the next table. Eagle,” is an autobiographical book..

Khalid Khalifa, who studied law and graduated from the faculty of law, can be called the hero of the Syrian novel. This novel was like a conflict field for him, through which he expressed a political position without problems and human rights. No ambiguity, and until the last days of his life he carried his anxiety over Syria and wept for his lost childhood.

Today we conclude our talk about the journalistic investigation on the website of “Chaydati” magazine, which deals with the stories of 4 professional Arab women photographers, photography, society and the best technological developments related to photography work.

From photographer Natalie Moghadam’s point of view, photography is a profession with great popularity and wide distribution, and an art that requires skill, precision and love of detail from those who work in it. The Lebanese photographer and owner of Too Cute to Shoot Studio says that the photographer captures feelings, beauty, difference, intelligence, diversity and happy, poignant, shocking and sad moments with the camera, whether the images are people, places, or pre-made scenes.

As for the role of the professional photographer with the massive diffusion of technology and its techniques, the photographer commits to “Saidatti”, the rapid technological development, cell phones equipped with cameras in the hands of the majority of people and the large number of amateurs in the field, the challenges faced by professional photographers, but their advantages cannot be ignored without taste. An inner sense of beauty, creative abilities and ideas, attention to detail and skill in using the computer and its programs.

Natalie highlights the role of technology in changing so many things in the industry, but this does not eliminate the need for a professional photographer who must keep up with these developments. Natalie sees a big difference between a professional and a non-professional photographer. The former has an eye and taste, takes the necessary photographs according to their conditions, details and information, ideal angle, details of exterior lighting, etc.

Especially regarding the overuse of “filters” in personal photos, he feels that “filters” do not reveal the reality of faces, and professional photographers avoid it as they control the details of photo sessions in and out of their studio. In their eyes to determine aesthetic quality.

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