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The site is an incubator for some of Abdel Gabbar Adwan’s work, offering an opportunity to view some of his written and film work. For example, in the “Zaman Al Andalus” (The Time of Andalusia) section, there are exclusive documentary video episodes about Andalusia from conquest to fall. In the “Nice Books” section, the author’s books and novels can be viewed in pdf format.
Under the heading “Thought provoking” (Speech Juice), you can find still relevant older articles, and successive modern ones as well as a link to articles published in English.
In the “What Was Said” (Than it was said) section, you can find brief critiques of and an introduction to each book available for reading.
The “Novel” section reviews the novel “Rawi Cordoba” and its writing process, and showcases Arab and Islamic Andalusia, through exhibitions of pictures of places, currencies, old maps, explanations about the period, references for the novel and what was written about it.
From the contents of this ‘incubator’, books, documentaries and articles, you can see that the author’s works are concerned with Andalusia and Palestine and past and present history. In other words, the exploration of what we were and what we have become with particular emphasis on what awaits us in the near and distant future, looking for mechanisms to confront it better. Perhaps this characteristic is what distinguishes all of his works … extrapolating the future from the past in the hope of identifying positive, preliminary constructs to help deal with it.
Abdel Gabbar Adwan: Postgraduate of Heidelberg University in Political Science, Social Sciences and Islamic Studies.
He worked for a quarter of a century in the media during his stay in London and participated in the political and cultural life of the time, through more than just journalistic work, including work as a consultant on Palestinian and Arab affairs to several European television stations.
He trained a generation of Palestinian journalists.
He also participated in founding and developing the Arab Organization for Human Rights and was twice elected head of its London branch.
He published three books about the first Palestinian uprising and contributed to its propagation in the media. He was very close to the leaders of the uprising and the leaders of the influential Palestinian factions at the time. The book “Shaab al-Jabbaren” is partially autobiographical.
Al-Andalus:
Just before Spain joined the

European Common Market, and following a visit to a then neglected poverty-stricken Andalusia, while wandering around it, Abdel Gabbar fell in love with it and decided to live there when he retired, and this is what happened. He started working on Arabic, Spanish, English and German references to complement his knowledge of the area. He set out on road trips to visit the sites mentioned in the sources and rented dozens of flying hours to follow the ancient routes along which the Arabs travelled…. The result was the documentary “In The Time of Andalusia” and the novel “Rawi Cordoba” the geography of which went beyond the borders of Andalusia and Spain, to the countries of Europe and many countries that once belonged to the Arabs, like all the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
The result was a journey of the eye, the mind and the heart through tenth century AD, which reveals facts and confronts a purely romantic view of the memory of Andalusia. Just as “Rawi Cordoba” was the first of the novels, so the author, after ten other works, is now working again on a work with a direct relationship to Andalusia and that forms a link between the events and conditions of that time and the disappearance of the Arabs, and between the events of our time, with parallels resembling the past and likely to lead to the same result, where the West is once again entering the Christian Crusader-mode that confronted Andalusians of that time. This West wants to regain the southern shores of the sea and return them to its control and under its hegemony as they were before Islam and its conquest or ‘opening up’.
From Malaga, and within sight of the Andalusian Sea, Abdel Gabbar Adwan wrote other novels such as “Siesseh fi al Jinneh,” ( Politics in Paradise) “Boumeh Barbara,”(The Owl of Barbara) “Fitnah al Korsi,”(The lure of power) and “Hafet al Nor.”(The Edge of Light) He also published other novels including: “Stories” and “Prisoners of Time 2017”,”Ahfad wa Ajdad”, “Shaab el Jabbaren” and “Sadeykey Ziad.” They are all available here to read online.