Speaker

Mai Al-Nakib is author of the novel A n U nlasting H ome and the short story collection The H idden Light of O bjects, winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival?s First Book A ward in 20 14 H er fiction has been published in N inth Letter,The First Line, A fter the Pause, and The M arkaz Review. H er essays have appeared in W orld Literature Today, BLA RB: Blog of the LA Review of Books, and the BBC W orld Service, among others. She is associate professor of English and comparative literature at Kuwait U niversity