Iyad Nassar experiences "The Audio Book" for the first time with Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Iyad Nassar is having his first experiences in the world of audiobooks by recording the novel "Memory of the Flesh" by the great Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, in cooperation with the Storytel audiobook platform.

Iyad Nassar expressed his happiness with this experience, which he finished recording recently, and described it as a "new field for him", as "audio books" are a creative way to disseminate the novel to a larger, diverse and different audience, even in its age and cultural groups, in addition to the millions of printed paper copies of the novel. Which has already existed in the market for years, stressing that the audio book team has taken care to present the novel with a high degree of smoothness and linguistic accuracy, while being careful not to affect the quality of the literary work and not to disturb the listeners.

Nassar also explained that he admires the novel "Memory of the Body", which achieved record sales and occupied a prominent place among literary works and won the lion's share of the admiration of critics and many literary awards, and this encouraged him to agree to go through the experience of issuing an audio book with his voice, as the method of narration The novel's vibrant characters develop as the action progresses, making it particularly suitable for voice acting.

For her part, Yasmine Grassetti, Storytel's publishing director in the Middle East and North Africa, said that the novel "Memory in the Flesh" is one of eight books by Ahlam Mosteghanemi that the company bought to convert into audiobooks, and 4 of these books have been published so far, and the book has achieved tremendous success. When it was first published in the 1990s, and is still among the best-selling works today, Ahlam Mosteghanemi is also very popular and is considered one of the few Arab authors who have sold millions of copies in the Arab world, and this reflects not only her importance as a writer but her ability to read the human soul, stressing However, the book has a strong imprint on Arab readers, through the strong emotional story that Mosteghanemi tells.

Grassetti explained the secret of choosing Iyad Nassar to record the book, saying, "We felt that it was the perfect choice for his successful record of serious historical presentations, and this is a serious book with a historical component, so we expected him to be able to express with his voice the depth that this book reaches with his words, and secondly his strong Arabic language, which is something Vital to any standard Arabic audiobook, and very charismatic."

Ahlam Mosteghanemi is an Algerian writer and novelist. She won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize. She was chosen by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to become a UNESCO Artist for Peace for two years, as one of the most influential Arab women writers, and her books are among the most popular works in the world.