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Hassan Daoud, born in Beirut in 1950, holds a master’s degree in Arabic literature and has taught creative writing at the Lebanese American University. He is the editorial director of al-Mudun news website and is on the editorial board of the quarterly magazine Kalamon. He is the author of three short story collections and ten novels.
No Road to Paradise was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2015.
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To reestablish my rapport with them and to get the conversation going again, I said I thought that instead we ought to restore the call to prayer to what it used to be, dependent neither on the electricity grid nor on batteries. It suddenly occurred to me to share with them how peaceful it made me feel—even now, and as though a soft breeze was suddenly cocooning me—to remember Sayyid Amin stepping up onto the stone platform at the mosque and singing out his call to prayer. Still, only the people in the two or three houses nearest to the mosque could enjoy the sound of it, even though his eyes would bulge out with the effort he made letting out every last breath of air in his chest.
Sayyid Amin . . . God be merciful to the late Sayyid Amin, one of them said, his voice thoughtful and sad.
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