Leaving Home

Hoda Omran  |  The AFAC Novel Writing Program  |  2016  |  Egypt
This is the story of Amjad, a young man in his late twenties, a photographer working for a news website, and dreams of a photography project that poTraining and Regional Eventsays what he called the "melancholy of women", for as he sees it, a sad woman is a beautiful one as she’s had her share of experience in life. Amjad liked experiencing an emotional bond with every woman he poTraining and Regional Eventsayed, which would of course end up with them having sex. Although these experiences were passionate, but they never came close to ‘love’, for as he liked to say, he wanted to experience and remain free. But during the covering of the Rabea’ event, Amjad gets shot and loses complete sight in his left eye, only for his doctor to tell him his right eye will gradually weaken to complete blindness, and with that a new phase of his life begins.