Riyadh Newspaper | Saad Al-Gharibi: Reading is two wings that fly in the sky of knowledge

Libraries with their owners have stories and situations, as well as anecdotes and grievances that deserve to be told. “Al-Riyadh” visits the libraries of a group of intellectuals, prompting the memory of the beginnings, and tracking the passion for collecting the most valuable possessions, and the stages of forming libraries.. In this book dialogue, we host the poet and writer Saad Al-Gharibi, whose library contains various subjects of religious books, Arabic language, literature, history, geography, science, society, media and miscellaneous, and has been indexed electronically within each section. Then studies according to geographical places and eras, then studies on specific writers, then come books of criticism in general and criticism of poetry and criticism of the novel, then collections of poetry and collections of ancient and modern, then Arab stories and novels, then foreign.

In addition to the paper library, there is a parallel electronic library with hundreds of books, collections of poetry and novels. Especially encyclopedias, translation books, and old magazines such as: “The Flowers and the Message.”

In my electronic library, I have the book “Bada’i’ al-Bada’a” by Jamal al-Din al-Khazraji, “The Silent Answers” ​​by Ibn Abi Aoun, and “The Feeling of Nakedness” by Salah al-Din al-Safadi, and the book “Al-Tabikh” by Muhammad bin Al-Hassan Al-Baghdadi, and “Al-Falakha and Al-Malikun” by Shehab. Al-Din Al-Dalji, and “Al-Zuhur” magazine, the period of its publication from 1910-1913 AD.

When I want to read from a book in my library, I search for it on the Internet. If I find it, I download it and read it electronically from a desktop computer with a large screen. I read and print the pages I need, and photocopy the paragraphs I need.

Continuous presence of the guest in the library The Kuwaiti “Al-Arabi” magazine, which contains surveys about the Kingdom in 1960 AD, “The Women’s Books” by Al-Majid, and the “Ibn Musharraf” diwan in the year 1355 AH. The book “The Precious Contract” from the poetry of Muhammad bin Uthaymeen. The book “Favorites” The book “Glimpses of World History” in 1957 The book “Tawhid and Tahdheeb” Third secondary school year 1966 The magazine “The Writer” in 1972 The book “Reflections on Literature and Life” The magazine “Al-Bayan” in 1937