Since I “discovered” Sanaa El Beisy, I have been waiting for her writings like a holiday gift. Each article was a gift and an anticipation for the next. A surprising bouquet of intense research, flowing style, and lyrical colloquial inlay. And just as Umm Kulthum used to transcend the text and the melody so that they became her text, melody and singing, so Sana Al-Baisi transformed every topic into her signature, as if no one had written about it before. And walking at this layer of the book is the spirit, not the ink. You find in what they write the delicacy of life, the freshness of love, and the elevation of vision. They always look at things from above, like birds. This is also Dr. Muhammad Abu al-Ghar, the engineer Salah Diab, the minister Abd al-Rahman Shalgham, and so were Ahmed Bahaa al-Din, Fathi Ghanem, Ibrahim Saada, al-Tayyib Salih, and all the nobles.
So I used to search for Sanaa al-Baisi’s article in Al-Ahram every week, fearing that I might miss something. And when a book of hers is published in Cairo, I do not wait for it to arrive in Beirut, but rather I order it from the Bisan Bookstore as a matter of urgency. Then our concern arose when Sana’s absence was repeated. There must be a reason. Then we learned the reason from some writers who mentioned that the lady had fallen ill. Then she returned to writing, and we went back to looking for her every day in Al-Ahram.
And when Our Lady slowed down in resuming writing on a regular rhythm, it occurred to me to go back to the archive to retrieve what I had read before, and I was in front of a surprise: There is a full-page article dated November 23, 2019 from Al-Ahram, with the subject:… The ink! It was the time of the revolution in Lebanon, and she chose what I wrote about the topic, adding to it a comprehensive research on my work. I do not know how I got it, and how much effort I put in linking my positions in Lebanese politics from the eighties to 2019.
There are many things in my work that Sana Al-Baisi drew me to.
I cannot quote more of what Sanaa al-Baisi wrote, because all the rules of legal principles dictate that. At the same time, how can I not be proud to hide such a certificate that is usually hung on the walls of homes like graduation certificates?! In one of the paragraphs, the professor calls me “Bin Atallah.” This will rejoice in the daily insult of a specialized stork dedicated to explaining “My Saudi Arabia.” And I would like to convey one line, which is the conclusion of Sana’s article, which resorted to the Lebanese slang in the Egyptian adverb: “My favorite writer is tomb me. The safety of your eyes, your hands, your pen and… your Lebanon.
He surrenders your position.
