in the streets of the city, the sight of whom filled him with concern for all the women who "found that they could not survive without prostituting themselves." Yusuf Shalhub, the famous Zajal poet, lamented the deterioration of living conditions during the War, which led many women to sell their bodies in exchange for bread. Seferberlik in Medina (Saudi Arabia) In Medina's memory of the war, Seferberlik refers to the collective deportation of the city's inhabitants by the famous Hijaz train. According to current research on the topic in Medina, Seferberlik for the original inhabitants of the city invokes memories of humiliation and the destruction of social and familial structure. Families, women and children were dragged to the train and randomly abandoned in Greater Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. According to the same source, only 140 people remained in the city and they suffered from food shortages caused by the Ottoman military leader Omar Fakhr eddin, also known as Fakhri Pasha. Seferberlik in Arabic literature, filmography, and historiography Seferberlik and the memories associated with it constitute an important element in Arabic literature. Poets and Authors whose parents endured the hardships associated with the Seferberlik received first-hand accounts of war experience and the means by which the war impacted the society in Greater Syria. These authors and poets have used the material of the Seferberlik in various contexts. Some authors used it in novels such as Nadia Al-Ghazzi, Hanna Mina...etc. In addition to the literature, authors of cities or villages popular history during the early 20th century mentioned the Seferberlik in regards to the war, and it was depicted as an essential event in the history of this period. A substantial amount of historical books were produced, including Ṭarāʼif wa-ṣuwar min tārīkh Dimashq (Anecdotes and pictures from the history of Damascus) by Hānī Khayyir and Siham Turjman's book Ya Mal el-Sham (The Daughter of Damascus). Novelists, journalists, and playwrights used the oral accounts of those who lived and experienced WWI, and the miseries of the Seferberlik that they described to produce an impressive body of literary and drama production. The Seferberlik scenes report on the miserable circumstances people lived through. In the 20th century Arabic's literature and Arab history accounts of the period the Seferberlik became a synonym for the famous famine that overran the Levant, especially Mont Lebanon, in 1916 during World War I. In the same context, the term Seferberlik