"It was fascinating to see the individual, private act of reading transform into a collective, public act of resistance by people from different age groups, nationalities, ethnicities, and political and religious values."
Takween Launches Arabic Creative-writing Resource Hub
There are already more than 200 philosophical and practical "how-to" craft essays written in and translated to Arabic, ranging from thoughts by Egyptian novelist Mansoura Ez Eldin to Anne Lamott to Abdelfattah Kilito to Neil Gaiman.