Mai Al Nakib’s Middle East in short
The National, May 2014 When Saddam Hussein ordered the attack on Kuwait in 1990, Mai Al Nakib was 19. She remembers the drama of skies blackened by burning oilfields and how, in an instant, the […]
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Meet the contenders for tonight’s IPAF ceremony
The National, April 2014 A Moroccan man missing for 26 years, a Cairo-set psychological thriller and a journey into a more stable Iraq are just some of the stories on the fascinating International Prize for […]
Author Sinan Antoon on IFFP and translating his own books
The National, April 2014 When the longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP) was announced last month, great play was made of the fact that of the three nominated books set in the Middle […]
Tahmima Anam’s short story of migration
The National, April 2014 Tahmima Anam has always been fascinated by migration. After all, the award-winning novelist of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim is a migrant herself. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1975, […]
Hindu epic Ramayana reunified at last
The National, March 2014 The year is 1649, and the ruler of Mewar in southern Rajasthan is looking mournfully at his pitiful royal library, destroyed by the Mughal Empire. Maharana Jagat Singh I, however, doesn’t […]