The other side..

Some writers, like a diamond, have more than one face, each of which radiates its own sparkle, and the face that Muhammad Abdel Halim Abdullah chose, or that his literary temperament chose for him, was the narrative face, moving between the novel at times and the short story at times. As for the face of the critic, the confessor, the student, or the meditator, it rarely appears to us.
However, he would steal his pen from time to time, perhaps due to the motives of the cultural environment and its press, radio, and cinema, and the motives of the literary environment and its literary friends, attacking critics, translations from literary languages, etc. I say that he was stealing his pen to record his memories, reflections, and opinions on life and on others. Starting with those closest to him
Thus, the writer appears to us with this fictional face. However, the glimmer of light that he radiates illuminates aspects of our writer's life and literature that would not have been revealed to us without him. It confirms that the face of the thinker has always been present behind the face of the novelist and storyteller.