Hussin Alkheder

It is January 2010, as two police officers emerge from their car and sprint into a building in an old Damascus neighborhood. They are joined moments later by Detective Mansuor Chait from the Criminal Security Administration and find the lifeless body of a mother of four daughters and a boy with a congenital bone disorder, inside one of the apartments. After Chait writes his report, he is handed an envelope stuffed with money. A month later, Mullah Abdullah Al-Allab, a religious man is arrested and held for interrogation in a horrifying prison without any idea of why he is there. As he teeters on the brink of madness, his best student Salah Almawazly, mysteriously disappears. Who is the only friend of Khaled, the boy with the congenital bone disorder. As their stories intertwine, only time will tell whether any will survive their challenging ordeals.

The Daughter of Patience

This epic is more than 1,500 years old, and still, the loyalists of al-Hussain bin Ali commemorate this anniversary annually in various forms around the world. The most important of which is the establishment of gatherings to mourn and remember the tragedies for ten days starting from the first of Muharram to the tenth day, which falls on the day of the battle depicted here. In The Victorious Blood, author Hussin Alkheder presents a historical look at the events that happened during the short life of Abdullah, the son of al-Hussain bin Ali bin Abi Talib. The boy was born in the middle of April, 1,500 years ago and lived only six months before being slaughtered with an arrow between his father's hands. Based on historical research, Hussin Alkheder chronicles the bloody events following the infant's birth. The Victorious Blood offers a look at the significance of this calamity in the history of mankind and its impact on the immortality of its divine messages.

The Victorious Blood

Daughter of Damascus 

Four Ladies 

The Victorious Blood portrays a bloody epic which is over thirteen hundred years old. It took place in Karbala, a small town on the bank of the Euphrates river in Iraq. It was between the grandson of the prophet of Islam, al-Hussain bin Ali, who commanded an army that did not exceed a hundred warriors. And Yazid bin Mu'awiyah, the son of the founder of the Umayyad state. His army consisted of thirty thousand soldiers under the command of Omar bin Saad. In The Victorious Blood, you will be taken into the heat of the battle itself and there you will learn about the reasons for the epic struggle and the historic consequences which followed it. You will be a historical tourist traveling back in time thirteen hundred years and vividly witness the war techniques, political tricks, and the lifestyle of that era. You will visit the palaces' reception rooms, personal homes, and public squares in Damascus, Kufa, and the Arabian Peninsula. You will observe historical characters and their involvement in a high stakes conflicts filled with language of ancient conspiracy, subterfuge, alliance, and betrayal, often ending in death for one of the combatants involved.

Hussin Alkheder

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