Blogs in December 2022

Our Man In Kuwait 1st December 2022

A colonial-era thriller set against the background of big power conflict. The ultimate timepiece tinderbox of sun, sex and spies. Kuwait 1960. With Soviet backing Iraq plans to invade. Gordon Carlisle lives in the expat community of Ahmadi with...

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The Woman from Tantoura 3rd May 2020

Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but...

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All That I Want to Forget 3rd May 2020

Fatima loves poetry and wants to study French literatureboth of which are anathema to her strict and conservative much older brother, Saqr. While living under his roof, Fatimas hopes and dreams are scrutinized, mocked, and slowly crushed as she...

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Yasmeena’s Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival 20th February 2020

This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena’s shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality...

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The Pearl of Kuwait 20th February 2020

Private Tommy Trang is the best marine imaginable; he’s smart, daring, physically fit, and patriotic to the core. California surfer Cody “Cowboy” Carmichael acts as his co-conspirator and Boswell during the Gulf War as the two AWOL marines sneak...

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