Mai Al-Nakib, AN UNLASTING HOME: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by professor and author Mai Al-Nakib to discuss her debut novel, An Unlasting Home, an intergenerational story inspired by Kuwait's short-lived attempt to charge blasphemy as a capital crime. The two talk about what Mai loves most about being a teacher, her unique educational history and journey to writing, and the women in her life who helped shape her. Mai also shares how she kept track of such a massive family tree as she wrote and what her typical writing process looks like.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
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| 1:03.7 | September 15th. |
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| 1:13.0 | parts of a book like the best spine, the best author's note, the best table of contents, |
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| 1:23.5 | in-person award ceremony in October in New York. You will not want to miss it. Go to zibbe. |
| 1:28.2 | Go to zibbi-Owins.com. Mai Al-Nakib is the author of an Unlasting Home, a novel. Mai was born in Kuwait and spent the first six years of her life in London, Edinburgh, and St. Louis, Missouri. She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Brown University and is associate professor of English and comparative literature |
| 1:44.4 | at Kuwait University. Her academic research focuses on cultural politics in the Middle East |
| 1:49.3 | with a special emphasis on gender, cosmopolitanism, and post-colonial issues. Her short story |
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