The Markaz Review BookGroup: Mai Al-Nakib’s ‘An Unlasting Home’
When you live in a conservative society, you run the risk of censure. How far should a philosophy professor stick her neck out to make a point? Would you put it all […]
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An Unlasting Home Author Mai Al-Nakib in Conversation with Katie Dancey-Downs
In 2013, Kuwait’s parliament authorised a law that made blasphemy a capital crime. Although this decision was successfully vetoed by the Emir of Kuwait, it highlighted the precarious sanctity of freedom of speech in a religiously conservative country. In An Unlasting Home, Mai Al-Nakib imagines an alternative reality where this law comes to pass. […]