This section of the journal is devoted to enhancing the literary and cultural memory of the younger generations of readers, by offering them some of the pioneering works in modern Arabic literature, many of which are not easily accessible in print and are totally absent from the new cyberspace. It aims to reinstate some of these forgotten texts, and to hold the recent memory of rational and secular literary production vis-à-vis the distant memory of the early Islam which the increasingly dominant ideology use to obliterate any rational or secular achievements of recent past. These are milestones of reason, innovation and creativity

This short story which was first published in 1929 is widely recognized as the first mature Arabic short story. Its theme of the frustrated secular intellectual and narrow-minded religiosity is still relevant and reverberates in the present Arab condition.