We’re going to Qatar. I had already quit playing football months ago. You see I love the game to the point that I could literally spend six hours every day playing it without getting bored. But I am at a point in my life in which hobbies constitute a distraction. I either specialize in something [...]
Gail Carriger’s Soulless is the first installment of The Parasol Protectorate series. The events of the novel take place in an alternate Victorian history where vampires and werewolves contribute to the expansion of the Great British Empire. Her protagonist, Miss Alexia Tarabotti, is a twenty-six year-old spinster who is part Italian and a full [...]
Imagine that in three hundred years, technology defeats death, wars cease to exist, and the world’s populations unite under one belief. This is the world of Dani and Eytan Kollin’s The Unincorporated Man. The premise of their book consists of a potent capitalism that engraves its power onto human beings by turning them into stock-value. [...]
Slam Poetry came to Kuwait through Ayana Ashanti, the current CEO of Taste of Jamaica. In October 2010, Ms. Ashanti organized the first major competition in Kuwait. Artemis And Other Moems includes seven of the most popular poems that Nada Faris performed, which gave her the nickname of “Kuwait’s Finest.” It also includes an explanation [...]
This short story revolves around gender disparity in Kuwait. It is set in the time of the Blue Revolution (when women stormed the Kuwaiti Parliament). Most importantly, it deals with literary criticism and its politicization. “Circumscribed Criticism” was published in UniQue Magazine in the #29 Dec Issue 2009, pages 86-87. This tale will [...]
