Title: Divine Comedy
Author: Sabri Bebawi
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1545299487
Pages: 174
Genre: Fiction

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Synopsis

There are only two ways to react to life’s trials and tribulations: Either to become frustrated, bitter, angry and feeling sorrow, or to see all events as comical and, somewhat, whacky. There has never been a day in human existence that did not have surprises and astonishments; how each of us reacts, determines the outcome. Life is a divine comedy; the line between fiction and non-fiction is very thin and elastic. One can stretch it from fiction to reality or vice versa; another can cross the line all together. This writer finds the difference so ambiguous and indistinct that often he is oblivious whether occurrences are fictional or real; he only sees all things as a form of a divine comedy meant to amuse and charm. He does not mind it at all; to him, whether it is fiction or otherwise is irrelevant; what matters is that it is. This writer is not disquieted whether his tale of his past twenty-five years is factual or fiction. For him, the difference is inconsequential, and he prefers that his readers decide. The fable is such an implausible one that many shall see it fictional; but to him, it is his life as he is accustomed. He shall take you on a stormy journey through his medical, emotional, and personal life of the last twenty-five years, since he was a thirty-five-year-young man. He has been so fervent, optimistic, and creative, that even his physicians have been overawed.

About the Author

The middle of five children, Sabri George Bebawi was born in 1956 in the town of Fayoum, Egypt, where he attended law school at Cairo University. His refusal to carry arms and follow Arab orders to kill Jews forced him te escape from Egypt.

He then left for the United Kingdom. He was invited by Oxford University, where he spent a semester, and he never returned to Egypt. A few years later, after living and working in England, Italy, France, and Cyprus, he took refuge in the United States.
He became a professor of Second Language, English, Journalism and Educational Technology. He studied for more graduate work at UCLA and obtained a PhD degree in Education and Distance Learning from Capella University.

Although English is his third language, he has published many works on eclectic topics. This is his third novel; his first has been surprisingly successful; God on Trial has won many awards including the British Literary Award in 2015. That English is a foreign language to him, the task of writing the perfect novel has always been preoccupying and challenging.

As a child, Sabri Bebawi struggled to make sense of the world. He grew up terrified of god and the world. As he grew older, and studied law, as well as all the holy books, he developed a more pragmatic and sensible stance; the word “god” became just that –a word. And the world became just a mirage. Bebawi waits for that certain to come day when all religions, conformity, capitalism, republicanism, and inhumanity are eradicated. He wishes America well, though it appears to him that is a little too late; America has been taken by evil sources and no one knows how.

Bebawi is currently a Fellow of the Salzburg Institute on Globalization, Austria. He lectures on the negative effects of Globalization on poor and abused nations.

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