The land of the Iraq International Book Fair in its current session (From My Heart Letters to Beirut) witnessed a ceremony to sign a new author in Dar Nineveh for critic Dr. Zainab Maytham entitled (Facilitating Criticism) Dr. Zainab is a teacher at the College of Education Ibn Rushd, University of Baghdad. She also signed a series of books she authored, including The Effectiveness of Intertextuality in the Textual Formation of Juma Al-Lami Literature 2014, The Criticism of Rhetoric: A Study in the Rhetorical Project of Dr. Muhammad Al-Omari 2018, The Critic Creatively: A Study in the critical perspective of Youssef Al-Youssef 2022, Employing the Imagined Form in Frankenstein’s Novel in Baghdad 2024, and The Outbreak of Panic (short story collection) 2024.
In an attempt to delve into and navigate the field of difference, break and destroy strict monetary constants, walk against the tide, and not abide by the laws that its founders could not fully implement, its goal is to move away from rigidity and to reach criticism to the area of facilitation in understanding and receiving.
It is noteworthy that the critic won many awards, including fifth place in 2020 in the Sumerian magazine Amarji Stories, an award from the magazine Scattered Papers for the critical article category in 2021, third place in the Manal Al-Akhras competition for the literary article branch in 2022, and first place in the Arab Creators Oscar Award for the article category in 2023.
The summary of the book (Abundant are the References that Indicate How to Criticize Texts According to Modern and Contemporary Curricula), and even the previous era. Some of them stood on tracking the theory and monitoring variables, and some of them applied the supposed mechanisms as limits to the theory, and a sect that was satisfied with theorizing, each of which expressed the point of view and the ideas of its writer, and defined the laws and mechanisms, but those who quoted them did not realize that they molded the text, sanctified the laws, as if fixed and could not be broken and changed. From this point of view, our author delves into the field of difference break of constants, break them, and walk against the current).