Ink on paper

"They say to you: Write. What do you want us to write? And who gives weight to what we write? People are accustomed to reading what is written with a broad pen, so what effect do a whisper and a wink have on them? The skins are wiped, and it is impossible for needles to be stuck in them. They must have obelisks."This is how Maroun Abboud opens this book, in which he collected a collection of his literary, social, and historical articles, through which he tried to highlight the unusual in what we see as ordinary, and what calls for pause in what we see as passing. His choice of the title of the book indicates the intensity of his humility, for his writings, of course, are not merely Ink on paper, but he put into it the summary of his long experiences in life and people, and his broad culture, as he was familiar with the cultures of the East and West, which qualified him to write in various fields of human knowledge, in addition to his enjoyment of an extraordinary critical faculty.