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Saudi Author Nasser al-Jassem Releases Tenth Story Collection

New book by Nasser al-Jassem
New book by Nasser al-Jassem
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Saudi Author Nasser al-Jassem Releases Tenth Story Collection

New book by Nasser al-Jassem
New book by Nasser al-Jassem

Saudi novelist and storyteller Nasser al-Jassem released a new story collection entitled "The Blackboard of Love." The collection was published by Adab Publishing as part of the "100 Book Project" supported by the Saudi cultural fund.

The cover of the book features a painting by Artist Abdelaziz al-Awaji.

This is the author’s tenth collection after a number of previous publications.

The new collection features different kinds of stories compared to its precedents. Consisting of 84 pages, the new book embraces several stories, including ‘The Iraqi Dust’ (The Blackboard of Love), ‘The Russian’ (Madiha), ‘The Cheeks Bridge’ (the diabolic color), ‘The Red Wind’, ‘The Face of the Girl’ (Mayyas) and ‘Father of the Rings’.

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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File

The Saint Hilarion complex, one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East, has been put on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in danger due to the war in Gaza, the body said Friday.
UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced.
"It's the only recourse to protect the site from destruction in the current context," Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, told AFP, referring to the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
In December, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict decided to grant "provisional enhanced protection" -- the highest level of immunity established by the 1954 Hague Convention -- to the site.
UNESCO had then said it was "already concerned about the state of conservation of sites, before October 7, due to the lack of adequate policies to protect heritage and culture" in Gaza.
The Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.