Yasmin Abbas Abdallah Aldamen is a young novelist and playwright. She wrote five novels and one play in the Arabic language, and she is the youngest writer in Jordan also the youngest member in the Jordanian Writers Association.
Now she is studying B.A of Applied English at the University of Jordan.

Yasmin is the author of "The Laws of the Lost Era". It is the first novel of her prospective five novels. She wrote it at school before nearly five years at the age of sixteen and then it was translated to English. Yasmin comes from a noble family (“Alamara” The Princes of Al Jeftlek: Aldamen Almasaeid). Her origins come from area called “Al Jeftlek”, Al Far’a Valley beside the Jordan River, from the Bedouin tribe “Arab Almasaeid”.
She is a descendant of Abdallah Aldamen; the Prince of Arab Almasaeid.

Yasmin's vision

The novel is the council of express and change. As a young person who is surrounded by many life issues, which she could not be detached from, she chose novelistic work to discuss and put a spot light on parts of those issues because writing is not only for pleasure, but also it is for making us more sensitive and aware of the reality of many things, by reflecting many life problems. That is an attempt to change people and societies to significant cultural renaissance or provide support for solution to other issues.

She says:-

"I started writing my first novel at school at the tenth grade in 2002. I grabbed a pen and some papers then started writing my first novel. I felt that as an outlet through which I can express what I want."

"I was very enthusiastic about it, especially because I love writing. I was writing every day; when I finished my first novel, I began with the second then with the third then the fourth without stopping; the ideas were weltering on the beach of my mind."

"Writing, for me, is one of the greatest and highest contributions in societies. When the writer reflects what she/he feels and puts on the paper, embodying a novel, a play or a story from her/ his imagination with actual events and facts reflect the importance of writing in expressing and changing."

"One of the most beautiful feelings is when a person sits, gripping a pen and before her/him a paper and an idea in his/her mind, sitting with these simple tools to discuss complicated issues through characters and certain events and plots."

"I feel happy because I found writing as a device to find myself by it, with my simple tools: paper, pen and ideas. I didn’t concentrate on the quantity of my novels, but I concentrated on the quality of them; on the highness of their ideas and issues, maybe they contribute in changing or correcting something in societies by highlighting a spot light on it."

"When my novels had a Deposit No. and publishing permission from the national library in Jordan, I thought the matter finished and I thought also that it is easy to find support for the novels. But that was the thinking of an ambitious kid; dreams and sees everything in the world colored with the white color."

"I didn’t know that the difficulties began to appear in my way before I reach my goals. Year after year, I realized that my dream maybe escapes from me, but I never withdrew, I determined to achieve it."

"Maybe others ask themselves while they are reading this, why was that difficult? In short, because I didn’t have enough money to pay for publishing the novels, especially I was a student at school and I didn’t want to make my father pay that expensive cost, which may make financial problems to him, especially that we had financial problems at that time. But he insisted on printing them and designing covers for them."

"Surely, it is easy to find or hear people talk about supporting creative or talented people. But it is difficult to convert their words into action and really help you to reach your dream. I never forget my dream; I kept it and my determination increased day after day. Even when I approached it, blocks were appearing in my way deferred the matter days, months and even years."

"Anyway, I printed all my novels on my computer in order to make them ready, in the hope that the time will come to be published, and designed simple covers then sent them to a bookbinder, all that was by the support of my father. I was so pleasant with those simple copies."

"When I entered university I suggested to my father translating the first novel "The Laws of the Lost Era" of the series "Teardrops on the Cheek of Era". He agreed to that. Later, I sent the translated copies, after typing it by computer, to a bookbinder then kept them with the others."

"The publishing was delayed for some years till my father sold a piece of his land, a part of that money was dedicated for my novel. We went to a press and designed another cover. After printing the copies in the press, which were not so many, I was not satisfied with that. So he once again encouraged me to publish the novel abroad to be available everywhere, so we again designed another cover. After that he went to a painter to draw the pictures which I wanted for the new cover. Finally, the novel appeared to the world after nearly five years of writing it."

"But anyhow, I am so glad of that experience which increased my ability in writing Arabic literature and also in English, especially after translating the novel from Arabic into English. And I'm as a young writer too self-satisfied about my first novel, which I wrote with little experience at that time."

"It is the right for persons who have a talent in something to be appreciated and supported. If they did not find that, they must create that support for themselves by publishing their writings. But if they could not publish them because of their limited finances which may delay the publishing, that must not make the writer stop, but struggle with determination to reach her/his goals."

"I am one of those persons who, after finishing writing their novels, wanted to publish but they were unable to do that. I didn’t loose the hope one moment, yet it increased day after day and year after year until the possibilities became available, which made me able to publish my first novel, which I started writing the first lines of in my birthday in the 8th of February 2002. I can't describe my feeling exactly, but I can say that the birthday of my first novel made me glad than my birthday did. Every creative needs support to develop her/his creativity's talent. But what is that support? It is at least to find one who stands at your work, not to pass it."

"About me, one person was behind that determination. Although he was unable to complete his education and doesn't have any certificate, even his read is so simple, he appreciated and supported my writing; he always expresses his admiration through few papers he read from my writings. Support does not come from they who have certificates or deliver lectures in universities or occupy chairs in the institutions, but comes from simple but experienced people appreciate striving, hope, ambitions and creativity. It is a good fortune for me that one supportive person, from those appreciators and motivators stand beside me to encourage and stimulate me and involved my love of writing by caring, respecting and encouragement."

"If I wrote a lot about him, this does not mean I deviated from the core of the main theme or entered into another issue; the writer shouldn’t write about her/himself more than the person who made her/ him a writer. And since the basis of all things in the world the human, and he who creates the success. Here before I talk about me and about my novel, I have to talk about the person who gives the support, care to success."

"It is a brief description of the birth of my first novel to the public which I present, with the full honor, to my first teacher who taught me that I can reach my dreams by striving, insisting, and faith. Of course he is my father Abbas Abdallah Aldamen who is the main character of one of my unpublished novels."