Montreal Book Fair | On the bedside table of… Maria Mourani

This Friday, Maria Mourani, author of the book Jihad Machine, will participate in a round table on all that desire can lead us to do. She presents her current readings to us.

Laila Maalouf
Press

Ethics, Spinoza (Folio)

“It’s one of the two books that inspired me [pour Machine Djihad]. Spinoza is an immortal. Ethics, it’s really a book to read at least once in your life to understand that there is no such thing as good and bad. I returned to Spinoza [étudié à l’école] and with the maturity that I have now, it confirmed me in certain convictions. […] When we say that someone is hurting us, we have to try to take it with a grain of salt and not let anger and hatred come over us, because they don’t do it out of spite, they do it out of stupidity. . For him, his feeling of existing is when he crushes others. “

Is aging inevitable?, D^r Daniel Dufour (Éditions de l’Homme)

“This is the book I’m reading now, but I haven’t finished it yet. I find that interesting because he talks about all of quantum philosophy, how we perceive ourselves, the way we direct our brains to think in a certain way that causes us to believe that we are getting old, when in fact everything. what is around us, all that is material, all the things that we see around us are only fabrications of our brain. Basically, you can materialize whatever you want with your brain. “

Flower pots, Weeds (Éditions de l’Homme)

“I really enjoy reading about art and all things handcrafted. This is my most recent reading on the subject. It’s a recipe book of all the simple cosmetics you can make at home. I like having natural cleaning products. […] I’m interested in a lot of things… It allows me to get out of academic aridity, but also the aridity of criminology. Someone who is in the crime world all the time needs to air their brain, their soul. ”