Between islands and tide: pages in language, literature, art and civilization

Salama Moussa says in his presentation to the book: "Mi is an oriental writer who loves the East, especially Egypt and Syria, with her heart and emotions, then because she is smart that loves Western civilization and calls for it, and its intelligence and patriotism are both pushing her to admire this civilization and urge to make it, because it is from one side a great product of the human mind On the other hand, a weapon can be caused by the East to respond to the Western raid. " This book is a set of articles for the writer Mai Ziada, which are articles in literature, art and language, so that any nation of nations remains, and the life of any civilization is its language in which its culture is formed, and its children communicate, and its glory is immortalized, and its glory is immortalized, And since this was the principle of "Mai Ziada" and her issue for which she struggled; It meant the direction of the Arab audiences to their language, to take care of it, and return it during the literary renaissance, in the early twentieth century. And the Arabic language, like any language and civilization, has suffered from periods of weakness that shrinkled and tired and became without a soul, but it remained the only language that maintained her life amid the death of many languages, due to what she called "Mai Ziada" islands and tide.