Maysoon Abu Bakr
The scarcity of names of poets and philosophers has come down to us, so much so that the history of the female component is almost not mentioned in front of a cascade of names of male creators in the various creative fields, or they have been suppressed by the harsh conditions and the lack of vision of women and the responsibilities that occupied them to complete their career and literary production, or as happened with the writer Mai Ziada, abandoned by her admirers by the giants of literature and conceived as an artist who scrutinized in the guise of glorifying her femininity and beauty, so they cared more for them than for her writings.
“May Ziada is a legend of love and genius”, as researcher Nawal Mustafa titled her book about her, her destiny was a psychiatric hospital. Bint Al-Shati said of her: “I shed tears on Mai’s life, and her life is nothing but a story of long martyrdom.”
Ghada Al-Samman believes that Mai’s glory days on her forum were just the beginning of her tragedy.
You cannot read about Mai Ziadeh or her, unless they come to you full of pain and grief. May Ziadeh was no more fortunate than the women who have been victims of their societies, prey to their pains and the ambitions of others.
Never, who did not live like the women of that time, neither in Lebanon, his father’s hometown, nor in Palestine, his mother’s homeland, nor in Egypt, where he lived and witnessed his glory. who veiled the faces of the women of their time, but were among the stream of intellectuals who lived their golden age at that time and who had the Mai Literary Salon as a platform that brought together their giants, entrepreneurs and politicians alike to Bab El Louk every Tuesday, which lasted a quarter of a century, which described Al-Akkad said: “If the conversations that took place in the May symposium had been collected, it would have formed a modern library corresponding to the” Al-Aqd Al-Fareed Library ”and the“ Aghana ”Library in Andalusian and Abbasid cultures.
“She can shine in the lives of others and has been burned,” says Nawal Mustafa, whom Anis Mansour suggested she write about Mai, who she considered the most important female literary figure of the twentieth century and considered writing about her a moral and ethical obligation. .
Never, which was the death of many writers in his day; She was eager to practice life with chastity and balance, remaining only a ghost and a fictional heroine in their poetic and fictional creations.
Mai Ziadeh is one of those women who were tempered by life and withered quickly, but her famous parlor was a beacon of splendor and culture, remembered every time she mentioned the eminent stature of intellectuals, literature, politics and business by the pioneers of the forum and lovers of its owner.
This Mi not belonging as she defines herself. Her culture of hers was open to different languages and she created her language of hers, Mai, the writer and translator, who had her dictionary.
