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Set in 1930s Syria, during the imposed French Mandate, Every Day Is the Last Day is the story of Ali, an iconoclast, idealist young man, who leaves revolution-steeped Damascus for Kufer Bollut, a village on the Golan Heights, where he sets up a school to teach the sons of the illiterate fellaheen and instantly becomes a celebrity. His sympathy towards Setih, a divorcée who has been through a terrible marriage, outrages the villagers, who presuppose a sexual relation between the two, and their lives are immediately put in mortal danger.

The writing is delicate and poetically evocative of the passionate patriarchal world of the Eastern Mediterranean. The novel gives a close insight into the aboriginality of the Arab people, their religious attachment to their homeland and the traditional forces that have given order to their volatile region throughout the millennia.