Qusay Al-Hussein, Professor Abdel-Ghani Talis gathered all his literary, cognitive, critical, and poetic powers to embark on the difficult adventure in a well, or even in a sea, or even at the bottom of the ocean, and finished his work, “Secrets of Treasures between Al-Rahbani and Fairouz,” which was published by “Dar Nelson,” and it was his tool. In addition, all the tools were at his disposal, as he found that the Rahbani scholar needed skill, precision, and follow-up, and to return to memory and delve into it, what he needed most was reading in office and notebook details. In the turmoil and immersion of editing, he used all the tools he could: carefully investigate the information, reformulate it transparently into an article or chapter, while adding a soft, silky blanket of literature and poetry to it, as he walked the path of criticism. Examines finds and jewels. Verify its truth. Then he continues his progress step by step. He says in the opening of his work, poetry, under the title: “I am Beirut”: “The city says/ I recognized that shy green boy/ He came to me to watch two dawns: Assi and Mansour/ in Piccadilly/ and Fayrouz, University of Land and Sea/ And death by sound/ His visit was a step Towards my heart / and we became two lovers / the boy was spelling poems / I said I would become his poem / with a “genius” / where visions unfold in a deep valley.” The researcher follows here, he needs long-suffering, because he probes the depths and dives into the meanings that emerged from that ancient Rahbani verse. We truly believed what he said when he told us: When he searches for the Rahban treasures, he is only searching for their secrets. The Rahban Assi, Mansour, and Fayrouz formulated, as he sees it, the golden triangle that marks time with magical art, to fill jars with it. It will take its place for another time. Its buildings spread before the eyes, even on dark nights. I was asked several times, on certain occasions, and sometimes in interviews, about the reason for my strong and good relationship with the brothers Assi and Mansour Al-Rahbani, and the age difference between me and them, thirty years, that is, two generations at least, and I was confused about where to begin / of my endless love for the brothers’ theater and the voice of… Fayrouz and I were a child.” Abd al-Ghani Tlis did not spare poetry in his book “Travelling.” He made it the first introduction to criticism, the journey of research, and the wide door through which the poet enters, carrying Diogenes’ lamp, in the middle of the dark afternoon, to search…
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