Madinah
Title: Madinah
Genre: Collection of short stories
Publisher: Comma Press
Publication Date: 2008
‘He knew he was doomed as soon as he saw her at the arrivals hall at the Dubai International Airport.’ So begins ‘The Week Before The Wife Arrived’, Fadwa al-Qasem’s short story about guilt, longing and a hemorrhaging marriage, set in our very own desert city. ‘Dubai is a character in the story,’ Qasem tells Time Out. ‘I think that any city you live in is your playground and it has rules, you play by the rules, you break the rules, and sometimes the rules break you. In that sense, a city is a character in your own life story as well.’ The city shapes experience.
Read about the book at Comma Press, UK.
Read the full interview in TimeOut here.
Buy Madinah on Amazon here.
Genre: Collection of short stories
Publisher: Comma Press
Publication Date: 2008
‘He knew he was doomed as soon as he saw her at the arrivals hall at the Dubai International Airport.’ So begins ‘The Week Before The Wife Arrived’, Fadwa al-Qasem’s short story about guilt, longing and a hemorrhaging marriage, set in our very own desert city. ‘Dubai is a character in the story,’ Qasem tells Time Out. ‘I think that any city you live in is your playground and it has rules, you play by the rules, you break the rules, and sometimes the rules break you. In that sense, a city is a character in your own life story as well.’ The city shapes experience.
Read about the book at Comma Press, UK.
Read the full interview in TimeOut here.
Buy Madinah on Amazon here.
