Saudi Arabia
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Imagination as Oasis: A Conversation with Sulaiman Addonia
Sulaiman Addonia discusses his new novel, SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE.
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Jane Austen in Pakistan: A Conversation with Soniah Kamal
Soniah Kamal discusses her forthcoming novel, UNMARRIAGABLE.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje
How different the world of the poem was from Saudi culture, which draped me in black and insisted, it often seemed, on One Truth.
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Home Is Here
There is no singular Muslim story, no definitive identity for the entire religion. […] Here, four women discuss what it’s like to be a minority in America in 2017, post-9/11 and post-Trump.
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Writers for Human Rights
Hundreds of writers around the world are protesting Saudi Arabia’s death sentence of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, accused of promoting atheism in his 2008 book of poetry Instructions Within. As a show of solidarity with the poet, Fayadh’s poetry will be…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
A Saudi Arabian bookstore chain has removed Donald Trump’s book from its shelves because of offensive comments the real estate developer and reality television star has made during his presidential campaign. A bookstore in Saratoga Springs bookstore found itself the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Nathan Deuel
Nathan Deuel discussees his collection of essays, Friday Was The Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East, and his attempts to encapsulate cultures so often misunderstood and misrepresented by American media.
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Secret Cinema in Saudi Arabia
Though cinemas and movie-making were made illegal in the 1970s after religious conservatives declared many cultural activities sinful, it has not stopped Saudi Arabians from making and showing films that undermine SA’s puritanism today. A few renegade film makers in…
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King Revokes Lashings
“Although there has been no official confirmation of the ruling, Princess Amira al-Taweel, wife of the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, tweeted: ‘Thank God, the lashing of [Shaima] is cancelled. Thanks to our beloved king. I am sure all Saudi…
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10 Lashes for Driving
“‘How come women get flogged for driving while the maximum penalty for a traffic violation is a fine, not lashes?’ Zein el-Abydeen said. ‘Even the Prophet (Muhammad’s) wives were riding camels and horses because these were the only means of…
