BY USMAN MAMA/AMR MUNEER DAHAB

With the recent publication of the English version of Wisdom Highway, the prolific Sudanese Canadian writer Amr Muneer Dahab completed forty books published in both English and Arabic. Wisdom Highway was first published in Arabic ten years ago.

Dahab’s previous books published in the genre of wisdom literature bordered on the self-development genre. Wisdom Highway is a pure wisdom literature piece of writing where Dahab deals with a wide variety of topics on the intellectual and emotional levels with a clear level of originality.

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Wisdom Highway is both ironic and satirical. It is boldly sailing against the tide, which motivates the reader to be in a constant state of contemplation and excitement while reading it.

Here are excerpts from Wisdom Highway:

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  Life: That which pulls out from under your feet while you are busy pushing it forward

• Trust: Most appropriate to be compared to a matchstick that is lit once
• Hunger: That confederate friend of the failing chef
• If: A magical tool that gives us legitimacy to await hope in the past
• Miracles: The name we give to what we do not want to believe could happen
• Your reputation: What others want from you
• Good and evil: At times, they confuse me to the point that I think they are interchangeable
• The impossible: Not what we cannot do in the future but what we could not do in the past
• The key: Although its first action is to close, it is connected in the mind with opening.