A simple youth I came I moved in freedom’s name they said it was a shame that I should bear this name   “Although we act so lenient we think it inconvenient because it lacks all fame just ditch your awful name   Outsiders we detest we’re better than the rest you have yourself to [...]

الوعي باللاوعي:  نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ الجزء الأول وائل المهدي مقدمة تتناول هذه الوريقات القصيرة أفكار العالم كارل يونغ الرئيسية، وخصوصاً أفكاره كما يمكن تطبيقها في فهم الأدب  من ناحية، والنظر إلى الأحداث العامة من ناحية أخرى، وليس فقط من ناحية الصحة أو المرض النفسييَن.  يجب أن ألفت نظر القارئ أولاً إلى أنني [...]

Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) وائل المهدي “Truth is what you have to sacrifice the most for” In a time of social and psychic derangement, where the individual as well as society are crushed by unknown inner forces, there is nothing for the thinking man to do but to vivisect pieces of his living self, stuff them [...]

Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) I saw the image, large and framed in black, of a well-known historical figure who is noted for his having been martyred in a very bloody way.  The image was the kind that was usually held aloft in mourning processions.  It had a stylized painting of his countenance.  He looked me from [...]

Wael Al-Mahdi The Arabs reject democracy for as long as they can, and when they accept it they distort it. We fought the devil for millennia until we discovered we were fighting ourselves. A man in a village was caught reading a book.  He became the laughing stock of the village. The most celebratory mood is [...]