The Trilogy of Algiers is the first Algerian trilogy written in Shakespeare's language, it is a three years project that started with the Hirak movement of 2019 and stretched through the Covid era of 2020 to the general exodus of students in late 2021. In this article I will offer a brief summary of the series, the philosophy of its writing and the theology of the books as well as the means to acquire it online.
Sons of Algiers : Tales from Algiers was the first book that talked openly about the hirak movement from a writer's lens. I was humbly part of that movement as a student taking part in various political and cultural activities, but I was also more of an observer of the great spectacle that happened in one small town, and I acquired an immense level of inspiration enough to shape that book. The Book was described from below "The Vaudevillian Vox Populi". Vaudevillian is a French term that used to described the literature and theater that was came and was set in a town by the lower and middle class people. Sons of Algiers was also inspired by The Dubliners in which various personas were in quest for their purpose in a big loud town. It is the first of Algiers' trilogy and was poetically given the motto "Universal Oneness in one town". It is divided in Three chapters with three themes and three tales in each chapter. The stories are subchapters and the personas makes a quick apparition in the other stories.
Sons of Algiers celebrated the human experience and it was fully romantic in a realistic setting. It was meant to remind the populace of their connection under the label of Algerianism, and identity that stretches through time and place, an outburst of pride at its reading, despite the hate of it love overcomes. But it lacked a part of realism, it did describe the people of Algiers from the lens of an author, but it rarely spoke about the author's journey and how did it feel like to be an awakened soul in a conformist crowd. The setting was blessed with the hirak's period, but when the hirak elapsed there was a return to original corruption, a return to the sins.
Whilst Sons of Algiers was about them, Sins of Algiers was about me. It is a collection of dark poems in homage to the mystical side of the town of Algiers long repressed, it celebrated the taboos of life that were at time censored but also real and present in the every day's life of each persona of this citizenry. It was written between December 2020 until March 2021. In an epoch where the second wave of Covid had swiftly ended and people were celebrating their survival through Narcotics, sex, drugs and Alcohol. Nothing that I described in that book was ever surreal. It was merely the product of an attentive observance that led to a series of revelation, that gave birth to this Grimoire labeled Sins of Algiers.
Whereas Sons of Algiers was Romantic, its successor was dark romantic in the same literary movement of Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe; With an intense piercing language harsh yet real and necessary for the sake of revival of the soul. It is divided in three chapters with several poems, each poem tackling a theme and blessed with a specific doctrine or Philosophy, from Hinduism to Pantheism, Sufism and Gnosticism. The main doctrine was the poetic philosophy in respect to Poe's Eureka in which Poetry makes the philosophy and not the opposite. The poems tackle the dark side of living in the streets, the delinquency of its inhabitants, the struggle of building and holding a romantic relationship to finally reach the last chapter which is called the door of the soul in which each questions has its answer and the purpose is finally found. With poems such as "A Rascal's Divinity", "Samsara", "Cryptography" escaping the mundane and giving place to the soul only. Moreover, now that the author had made peace with the town, and found his purpose what would succeed this immense darkness. Sins of Algiers was so dark that it pierced the light of Seeds of Algiers.
Seeds of Algiers a new dawn, a new hope for the populace written in the pronoun "We" as a celebration of oneness and return to original source. By observing the crowd in the romantic Sons of Algiers and looking for oneself in the dark Sins of Algiers, we are therefore faced with nothing but the choice of acceptance of fate and everything around it, and equipped with enough spiritual awareness to help others without making them forcibly accept our beliefs. Diversity is starting from this book a natural state of ecstatic wonder, and universal intuition. With the three chapters of Light, Honor, Duty and initial reintroduction of the Algerian principles that makes us who we are. The Algerian Identity is now a natural core, a sense of the self.
Seeds of Algiers is a collection of poems, thoughts and prayers for an optimistic living, it explores topics such as Divinity, Astrology, Compassion and kindness through the sense of oneness. The happy ending of the trilogy and a return to original source. This is the true Constitution.
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