Blogs in January 2026

Gulf 20th January 2026

Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert. After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and...

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Cities of Salt 3rd October 2025

When oil is discovered in a poor 1930s Arab village, the religious, historical, and cultural confrontations that occur between the natives and the American colonizers threaten to destroy a way of life

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The Weight of a Mustard Seed 3rd October 2025

The Weight of a Mustard Seed is the intimate, startling and gripping account of the slow destruction of a man, his family and his country. General Kamel Sachet was a decorated hero of the long Iran-Iraq war and a...

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My Past is a Foreign Country 29th September 2025

‘Touching on often taboo subjects . . . Talkhani’s story of grit is a portrait of a young woman who refused to let others define her.’ ELLE 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid...

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Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom 29th September 2025

A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world. In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped...

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