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Pushing Against the Self in Fiction: A Conversation with Akil Kumarasamy
Mona Kareem talks with Akil Kumarasamy about her new novel, “Meet Us by the Roaring Sea.”
Mona Kareem
Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. She is a recipient of a 2021 NEA literary grant. Her translations include Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within (nominated for a BTBA), Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s Except for this Unseen Thread (nominated for the Ghobash Banipal Prize), and Octavia Butler’s Kindred.
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The Persecuted Novelist of Dystopian Cairo
Mona Kareem interviews Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji, who faces charges in Egypt for "sexually explicit fiction."
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