He who is not attended by peace

Adel Mardan possesses a uniquely sarcastic tone and a rebellious, almost existential tone. He expresses the dark clouds within him, the turmoil and reactions to a stony, twisted reality that rises with its high walls around him, planting poisonous flowers in his garden. It''s rare to find a sarcastic tongue, a quality generally lacking in our literature. This voice, with its black humor, learned from the surrealists, is a taut, pulsating bow ready to release a genuine scream or a loud laugh... His language is abstract and bare, with the makeup removed from its face, yet it is precise, expressive, and familiar...Hussein Abdul Latif