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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)
Arabic fiction faces up to the future
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Well-known Egyptian writer Ahmed Khaled Towfik once wrote: “In fact, people in Egypt are fortunate. They do not need to read horror fiction in order to rehearse death. Horror—particularly its worst kind: fear of tomorrow—is a permanent...Caption:
Small child gazing at toys in the market, Kuwait
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...Caption:
Selva Rasalingam (L) as Kevin/Khaled Al Hamrani and Nabil Elouahabi as Carlos Fuentes in The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes. (Photo by Judy)
Tale of an Iraqi refugee’s struggle to become British takes to London stage
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—“Arabs are savage tribes, but Britain is the land of democracy,” shouts Salim Abdul Hussein—or Carlos Fuentes—as he struggles in his broken English to convince the UK Border Agency officer of the validity of his asylum claim. Based on a short...Caption:
The sun sets behind the High Atlas on April 1 , 2014, seen from desert plains near the city of Errachidia. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA