Asmaa Nasser emphasized that narrative and literary aesthetics are not intellectual luxuries, but rather acts to counter nihilism, the dehumanization of man, and his reduction to a number or an algorithm. She pointed to the specificity of the Palestinian narrative in presenting existence as an act of resistance, as well as the presence of the anxiety of transformation, alienation, and generational conflict in the Jordanian novel.
She stated that the novel goes beyond conveying news as an abstract figure to restore the individual's humanity through the details of their daily life and disappointments, considering that the narrative shifts from the question "Who are we?" to the question "How do we know ourselves in a changing world?"
For his part, Samer Haider Al-Majali presented a reading of the transformations humans have undergone from the industrial revolutions to the digital revolution and artificial intelligence, and the questions they have generated regarding identity, freedom, power, and capital, leading to the blurring of boundaries between reality and the virtual world, noting the presence of these questions in global and Arab literature.
In turn, Abdul Salam Saleh affirmed that change is the only constant, and that the novel has kept pace with civilulational transformations from classicism to experimentation, pointing out that questions of existence and meaning take precedence in the concerns of the Arab individual in light of the decline of grand ideologies.
Saleh questioned the ability of the Arab novelist to answer the questions of the era in light of restrictions and taboos, emphasizing that freedom is the soil of creativity and that the novel remains a space to test reality, reveal its contradictions, and pose its open-ended questions.
