To write a city after asking: "What is a city?"

Hisham al-Bustani led a writing workshop about Amman and its transformations. The texts explored the tensions experienced on a daily basis with the surrounding urban space. Participants were able to reflect on the memory of Amman between romanticized and realistic, public and private, collective and individual, supposed and imagined.

Hisham Al-Bustani is an author who writes stories, poetry, essays, and hybrid and generative forms. He has published five books in literature: On Love and Death (Al-Farabi, 2008), The Monotone Chaos of Existence (Al-Farabi, 2010), I See the Meaning (Al-Adab, 2012), Inevitable Introductions to a Postponed Annihilation (Al-Ain, 2014), and A Long Inhale Before It’s All Over”(Al-Kutub Khan, 2018). In political thought, he published the book Functional Entities: The Limits of Political Practice in the Postcolonial Arab Region (two volumes, Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 2021). Hisham's stories and poetic texts were translated into several languages, and published internationally and his work has received numerous prizes.