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The Hidden Light of Objects
The Hidden Light of Objects
Mai Al-Nakib
An ordinary object can hold an extraordinary past. In this award-winning collection of interconnected stories, Mai Al-Nakib illuminates the private lives of people across the Middle East, where personal memories intertwine with war, political upheaval, and shifting cultural identities. A young girl bears the name Amerika in a country growing increasingly hostile toward the West; a Palestinian teenager is drawn into a disastrous act of violence; and a Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after years of captivity in Iraq. Beneath the headlines, Al-Nakib finds the intimate moments that define us: love, betrayal, forgiveness, and the fragile hope of beginning again.
Kuwait 2025