The National, January 2020 It was 2015 and Saud Alsanousi was finishing the follow-up to his novel, The Bamboo Stalk, which won him the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013. The bestÂselling Kuwaiti author […]
The National, September 2018 They are some of the defining images of our times. When the unbearable pictures of a three-year-old Syrian boy, lifeless on the shore of a Turkish beach, made the front pages […]
The National, August 2018 It was a stiflingly hot night in a Nigerian border village. Thousands of miles away, bombs were raining down on Baghdad as the Iraq War intensified. A young aid worker on […]
The National, August 2018 In a cell 2.4 metres by 2.1 metres, Nelson Mandela sat down to write to his daughters. It was 1969, and Mandela had been serving a life sentence as a political […]
The National, June 2018 Written as a response to the experience of Palestinians living in Israel, Fractured Destinies deservedly won Rabai Al Madhoun the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016. Now translated into English […]