Three Novels on 2025 Sheikh Zayed Shortlist
Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award today announced their 2025 shortlists in seven categories; this year, each was just a short three-book list.
Saud Alsanousi
Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend
The twelve authors from nine countries who recommended books for our list of 2023 summer reads had different ideas about what you need in a summer book.
Saud Alsanousi on What the Western Reader Doesn’t Know about Kuwait
“For instance, there is a focus on women, particularly the two women characters in Mama Hessa’s Mice: Mama Hessa and Ghanema Al Tarrof. Those two characters — who I wrote spontaneously, since they’re from our reality — didn’t draw much attention from the Arabic-language readers.”
Book Banning in Kuwait: How, Why, & What Comes Next
How does the Ministry of Information in Kuwait oversight committee manage to ban 4390 books in five years?