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A woman writes at her desk in her home office. (Getty Images/Ulrik Tofte)


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Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz (L) wrote the highly-acclaimed Cairo Trilogy. (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)


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Small child gazing at toys in the market, Kuwait


An Author’s Search for the Kuwait of Old

An Author’s Search for the Kuwait of Old

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—For Mai Al-Nakib, a Kuwaiti writer who spent large chunks of her life away from her home country, writing fiction is “a way to open a space to kind of remind myself of the different kind of place Kuwait used to be.” [inset_left]The Hidden Light...
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Selva Rasalingam (L) as Kevin/Khaled Al Hamrani and Nabil Elouahabi as Carlos Fuentes in The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes. (Photo by Judy)


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The sun sets behind the High Atlas on April 1 , 2014, seen from desert plains near the city of Errachidia. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA


Out of Place in Morocco

Out of Place in Morocco

[inset_left]The Arch and The ButterflyBy Mohammed AchaariTranslated by Aida Bamia324 pages Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, Doha: May 2014[/inset_left]It is a rather disappointing beginning: the narrator, a middle-aged, Left-leaning Moroccan journalist,...