Maps are narratives of the past, present, and future, powerful chronicles of presence and absence, ownership and theft,...
29 AUGUST, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than...
2 MAY, 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Three poets pay tribute to the struggle in Gaza, the West Bank and the world over for Palestinian...
4 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Mai Al-Nakib explores memory, forgetting, and writing through the lenses of Woolf, Proust, and a Wim Wenders film.
3 MAY, 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Novelist Mai Al-Nakib opines that despite the bombs and the bullets, Arab voices and cultural narratives are on...
6 NOVEMBER, 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
In Mai Al-Nakib’s new short story, a woman makes a Herculean effort to preserve the memory and artwork...
2 JULY, 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Mai Al-Nakib, a writer in the country's capital, interprets the recent rise in conservatism in Kuwait as a...
27 FEBRUARY, 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
The author of the novel "An Unlasting Home" recalls stories of African slaves in Iraq and Kuwait.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Mai Al-Nakib
