TV host Khaled Mansour will welcome writer Ragai Moussa on his program “Rituals of Creativity” on Nile Cultural Channel at around 7:30 PM this Wednesday evening, to discuss Moussa’s book “How the Short Story Is Made.”
How the Short Story Is Made by Ragai Moussa
“A story is made of words—words invented on the spot, woven solely for the structure of the story. A story does not accept old words; it always demands new ones. A story is made the way myth was made: myth was created to overcome time, death, and fear. And so is the story; it is produced in order to live alongside time, in its company. A story is profoundly temporal—time enters the story and never leaves unchanged. It comes out white, or black.
The story comes from the past—it has happened before. We write in order to retrieve. But what do we do with the future? The future dawns within the story; it appears as a horizon.”
About Ragai Moussa
Ragai Moussa studied psychology and anthropology, and founded Honna, a feminist publishing house. He has written in both the novel and short story genres, and has recently published a poetry collection titled “The Book of Solitude.”
