The Woman of Questions: Unwritten Letters

About this book

(The Woman of Questions.. even if silence speaks) In the forgotten corner of memory, where the words that never found their way to paper are born, stands a woman unlike all women. She is the 'Woman of Questions' who does not search for ready-made answers but searches for herself amid the rubble of longing and the shards of broken mirrors. This book is not merely a poetry collection but an emotional map of a journey that begins from 'the first questions' and passes through 'the time of bewilderment,' to finally settle at 'the return to the self.' In a style that flows like calm rain that waters longing without waking the pain, Naglaa Mahmoud Al-Baheiry takes us on a journey through thirty poems. The poems here are 'unwritten letters'—those we trapped in our throats for fear of loss, or out of shyness from love, or confusion at a fleeting encounter that changed the course of a lifetime. They are the voice of every woman who asked herself in the last vigil of night: 'Who am I? And why do I still write?' The tone of this work progressively oscillates between the mystery of an absence in which no one is truly absent, and the inspiration.