Mr Cooper And His Companion

Cooper is not an exact or accurate copy of the Lebanese poet and critic Akl Al Awit. In fact, the dog that Al Awit adopted because of his son, Ounsi, became an excuse for the author to dive deep inside himself and discover new sides of him he didn't know existed, in a lengthy narrative entitled "Mr. Cooper and His Companion" (Assayed Cooper Wa Tabiouhou). That is precisely where the title came from. Pets are the ones that teach their owners, it's not always the other way around.

We read about this friendship that only lasts a couple of years but keeps both sides always close together. The book follows this intimate relationship and its inner repercussions on the two beings, but Cooper's presence pushes the author to look at his life from a different perspective, perhaps a more transparent one, especially during this difficult period of modern Lebanese history with the economic crisis and the explosion of the port, to which are added the author's personal circumstances...

It's a subjective reading of the author's life in the presence of Cooper and through his eyes, a subjective reading of his philosophical outlook on the world and existence, written in a gracefully poetic flow.