Khan Qah

The Khan Qah

part " A " 

A novel for boys and girls 

Moeen Soussi 

- The Khan had an old name for knowledge, for the first way followers .. !! 

The First World, Tunisia 1975 

Alone, he came down from his mother's womb (Latifa), in silence. 

Nurse: Not crying is a strange condition, the color of his skin is dull and his breathing is calm. 

The mother - not tired from birth - but the room is full of bright lilac light and the scent of childbirth tingling your pores with another hit, making you feel a different feeling. 

Latifa: I smile and sneeze, Aashooooo ..., I feel cold in my body, but I am comfortable and light. 

Nurse: No, Madame - your first birth might be like this, but give me your home phone number to call your child's father. 

Latifa: My husband traveled six months ago and went to Florence to work. 

Doctor: Your birth is easy and you need to rest for at least two days, Madam !! 

Nurse: So from his grandfather or a relative? Why are you alone, madam? 

Latifa: His grandfather passed away twenty-four years ago and my family in Palestine. 

Nurse: Wait to bring you soup and food. 

Doctor: I will work with the hospital administration regarding his birth certificate, but what will you name your child? 

Latifa: Rashid and his father's name, Taha. 

Latifa, with her son Rashid, graduated from (Boussaid) Hospital, returning to her home, embracing the water of her heart and the fruit of her soul. 

While she is in the taxi, she recovers memory and thinks about her husband Taha, the car's radio is emitted by the composer (Omar Khorshid), so the moments are sympathetic about her while on the streets of the city. .. 

Latifa laughs, she does not know what fate has in store for this child !! 

*** 

Latifa takes it upon her to raise Rashid, breastfeed him, wash him and wear him. 

He is a quiet child, who does not shout .. He has a face full of different expressions that distinguish it from the rest of the children. Latifa senses for a moment that her child has a special charisma, as he is one month old, but the details of his body appear consistent and his eyes appear like two paintings that curve a strange secret. 

The color of his skin, his hair, and his hands, as with Michelangelo's paintings, make it even more surprising that he makes muffled voices like the breathed breath. 

After several months, Rashid learns to love and then walks, and his mother takes him for a walk in the streets of Bou Said. 

In Bou Said, where blue buildings, white walls, antique decorations and dreamy trees travel, Ain Rachid, the silent child of his third year, travels. 

Latifa's neighbor, Nariman, who has abundant brains and radiant intelligence. Talking poachers chat with her as her daughter Arakaz tries to play hide and seek with Rashid, and they run around the courtyard among the white houses. 

"Arakaz", with her white dress and her red hair, looks like a white chrysanthemum. 

Rashid does not speak to her, but his eyes dance around "Arakaz", which he takes on a tour of the city. 

 "Arakaz" tells Rashid that there are secrets he does not understand, and he is always listening to the words of those around him without realizing the dimensions of the stories. "Arakaz" appears wise in the dress of a fourth year old girl. 

He is three years old standing with his light purple shirt looking in his hands baffled at himself about the fragrance of this strange city, the eyes of "Arakaz" see what Rashid does not see, the redness of her soul stuns Rashid with locked books, swallows it while playing without understanding and does not know how to play another role with it Other than following the path behind its white thread between its legs, which always tightens the details of its fall on this blue planet, the blue city, and the blue sea of ​​"Arakaz", the two blue eyes, which carry a door that appears to be the beginning of a wider world that Rasheed crosses. 

Meanwhile, Nariman says to her neighbor, Umm Rashid: 

My husband will send Aracaz to a school in our next neighborhood soon. My child is smart, she may pass kindergarten quickly, God knows best, I think she is older than her children. 

Nice response: 

There are many things in our house, Rashid learns from them, toys from everywhere in the world, small motors, pens, chalk and wax colors, as he is always drawing and scribbling on the leaves and walls. 

After two years I will catch him in that school, but what is her name? 

Nariman: - Nariman responds with interest - Tunisia, which is a school built by an old traveler who passed through Tunisia with his caravan and was carrying a fortune, he settled here a few years in which he built the school, he came by train and many escorts came with him carrying electrical devices such as radio, camera and TV, this school attracted smart students From all the city ,, 

Latifa: Mmm, we'll see 

At home, Rashid holds colors and begins scribbling many lines, drawings, and details. His mother notices him, and she says in her mind: This child carries things that we do not know. 

Rashid continues to draw on walls and book papers, and he plays alone with things and that flash inside him, alone, making him a strange child. 

He makes various shapes of clay and sand in the garden of the house and stares at objects and horizons with full merger. 

*** 

The first world 2 

Tunisia School 1979 

In an autumnal atmosphere just before September, specifically in the last third of August, while Latifa walks on (Carthage) Street and buys a bit of coffee and spices from Attar Bou Hamidi, and sends her broken phone to the repair shop in the market, and as soon as she finishes, she drinks orange juice with Rashid in the juice store Marzouq is on the corner of the street that leads to a large square filled with children and old-fashioned cars. There, the "Tunisia" school shines like a solar dome in the city center, looking nice to go with Rosetta to the school whose walls look like an orange castle across the streets painted like rivers. 

Before entering the school, Rashid draws a glimpse of his reddish brown hair and turns to children who make noise and fuss here and there and play on the street ahead of the new school year. 

Rashid takes a glimpse of the memory with "Aracazia", ​​moments of his playing with her, and he remembers the locked boxes that he forcibly swallowed while walking, as he no longer saw him recently, then he joined his mother, who called for him inside the school. 

In one of the corridors, Latifa inquires one of them about the school and the curriculum. In the last call from her husband, Taha, he instructed her to rationalize and was pressing her to send him to school to learn. 

Taha sends money to his wife every month and asks about his son, and Latifa in turn sends him pictures and reassures him about everything, and sometimes he sends gifts that arrive by sea, from his work in the port of Florence, Taha's work is difficult, from time to time he wanders in this city crowded with arts and architecture And civilization, as a result of an ambitious man seeking to lead a decent life for his family .. 

Latifa reassures the school, as she noticed some teachers, teachers, and classes that were built in a circular form, with a wide courtyard of white granite tiles at the edge of the ring. The school has red, cream, green and green laboratories for chemistry, biophysics and the arts. 

This school has multiple stages, from pre-primary to post-university, with an area of ​​forty acres overlooking a land full of trees in the north, where the Mediterranean and then the market in the south, 

The teachers of this school were students with the old traveler who came by train, and they are not, as some people think, receiving information or holding monthly exams. The school has different special rules so there are no signs in it, but another secret. *** 

On his first day, Rashid goes ahead toward school, on the way a strange bird named him comes 

(Quetzal) On the phone cord that ran between the houses in the morning, he was colored in bright colors, and made amazing sounds as if on Sumatra Island, Rashid stared at him and the waves merged between him and the bird until his body shook. 

In his small bag, white papers and wax pens, and he wears a white, erect tall shoe as an ice man standing in the desert, afraid of melting in an endless world. 

He saw what he saw on his way from the scenes of the people of the city, the school in the neighborhood adjacent to Port Said, he saved the road, and he began to feel the loss of his mother and a new life ahead of her, and as he is puzzled, his silence increases in his first day and his eyes are ambiguous. But this time, he used to shoot his wings to shine in the light of the sun, as if he were welcoming him in a world that Rasheed knows nothing about. 

The “Tunisia” school has children playing a lot, children meditating, boys of old horses, and vendors in green trousers. Rashid runs looking for a friend here or there who carries a fun day for him. He liked to play like other children, but he did not find it. 

*** 

In the pre-primary stage, children teach teachers who have traveled a lot in the prime dimension of Priemeso, where the eyes are not as normal !! 

Suddenly, every student in the school went to the spacious circular courtyard, where the school gathered first in this new year, and the teachers came and prepared for this important day. 

Fouad Rashid became flying here and there when he did not realize what all these moving bodies are, which play, speak and interact in a continuous, continuous life .. !! 

The school does not have a principal. Rather, it is the teachings of the traveler who built it that apply in the veins of its classes and students. 

In the morning meeting, students line up in the form of rings, and in the midst of them, the teachers wear shirts of yellow pistachios and chrysanthemum scarves. The school has three floors and bright palm trees and supervisors crossed the Amankudo River in Africa. This century marked a change in industry and science. The old traveler, the founder of the school, predicted this change and created a mind map for this strange construction. 

*** 

Rashid stood with his fellow classmates before crossing over somewhat, to understand only the obedience of the class teacher, which consists of twelve students in a small circle around the teacher "Ragheb" coming from the country (Primoso) four years ago. 

In the midst of this meeting, Rashid sees from his friend "Aracazia" in another episode, broader than their small circle, with her red hair that shines in the sun strange. 

Rashid wonders and laughs at his secret about the amazing taste of this school, as everything in it calls for stimulation. 

After the teacher’s first “Ragheb” class, students go out to walk and buy food, and while Rashid alone, five young students surrounded him and took him to the biology lab by force and gagged his mouth and quickly ruled him and injected him with anesthesia, the students seemed to show the appearance of smart boys wearing yellow colored shoes The sun and they are experts in the art of anatomy And simple operations, they were five, 

Someone said: What a wonder this boy we've searched for for years and we haven't found him. He seems to have been born when the moon is full. 

The second said: Are you sure? 

The first said: Yes, and strongly, look at this scar on his right shoulder. It looks like a bird, but he does not know anything. 

Biology teacher "Chinaz" teaches his students firmly to learn lessons in applied biology and has brought his curriculum books that change every semester from Spain and he personally has learned and graduated from the University of (Nice Sofia) in (France). 

They changed Rashid's clothes with the clothes of the operation and put his naked body on the bed, and they drugged him with a strong anesthetic, and they brought a small lock the size of the bee and planted it in the boy's body - specifically in the back - the owner of the small body and they sewed the wound with ingenuity after they confirmed Rashid's sleep and that the thread was the type that It decomposes once the wound is healed. 

This lock dislodged a nerve in the fifth vertebra in Rashid’s body, but without any interruption. 

After two hours, Rashid woke up to find himself lying in a state of extreme fainting as a result of the surgery in one of the school's halls called the S-QUEEN hall, and if he was surprised by "Arakasia" she would stand on his head and say to him: You will meet new people, Rashid in this school and you will learn Things envied by him, ninety-nine of your fellow citizens lost the bet because they wronged themselves. 

When Rashid woke up from his anesthesia, he felt heavy in his tongue and chest, so his silence and isolation from the world increased, then he returned to another meeting with the teacher, the owner of the Arabic language teacher, as if nothing had happened.