Sharjah: Ashraf Ibrahim
Mona Al-Ali is a storyteller, novelist, and plastic artist inhabited by the aesthetic sense of writing and the arts she practices. She is another voice for the creative woman who carries her idea and takes her to a near dream, as she grasps the embers of stories in order to ascend the reader to the height of astonishment. She has three literary works in her credit, which are “The Mirror.” From the window, a deaf song.” These books paved the way for her to stand side by side with her peers in Emirati feminist literature. She has about 100 paintings, and in her credits a number of short films in which she participated in international festivals and won awards for them, but she is always looking for what she tells about in a dazzling pictorial style that embodies her ability to make writing sound and image.
In the place of a long narrative narrative, Al-Ali calls for another biography that contains a lot of imagination, although the construction of the novel travels to an ancient time in the Gulf environment with its attractive elements that represent a simple life imbued with the fragrance of beauty, through which prominent signs appear in the lives of parents and grandparents in a fresh language characterized by smoothness and sweetness. In portraying traditional life, which shows this creative aspect in a way close to the reality of ancient life, as it draws inspiration from the details of the past in an imaginary manner that expresses the novelist’s desire to investigate vibrant forms of Gulf life, as she was able to fairly distribute the twenty characters in the pages, but she gave the role of heroism For a man who faced many obstacles, and the writer was able to leave the endings open to interpretation so that the reader discovers what can happen at the appropriate moments in an effective and interesting manner. Al-Ali has a suggested title for the novel, which is “My Finger Did Not Drown.” She is familiar with the metaphor and has the skill to add a kind of symbolism to her works in proportion to the content of the idea and referrals that enhance her dramatic plot in the fabric of the novel full of manifestations of free creativity.
Despite her boldness in writing the short story, which established her in the art of literary writing, she is basically a visual artist who identifies with the intersections of conceptual art, and she has works that recorded her presence in the world of art, as she is considering holding a personal exhibition consisting of 30 paintings she drew specifically for The ancient shapes of the traditional doors and what they represent of human stories on the scene of the authentic folklore, which represents for them the living source that brings them closer to elements that support the humanity of the ancient environment, including its rich and irresistible natural forms, in addition to that it will participate in other paintings within this exhibition in which it displays the houses The ancient city and its abundance of things that fill the breasts with joy, and express the satisfaction that surrounded man in the ancient local environment.
