Mai Al-Nakib & Tom Barbash (2014 event)

Kuwaiti author Mai Al-Nakib is a thrilling new voice from the
Middle East. Educated at Brown University in the USA, her debut
short story collection The Hidden Light of Objects peels away the
private struggles of adolescence, marriage and middle age with a
unique Kuwaiti-American perspective to stunning effect. Tom
Barbash is an acclaimed, bestselling San Francisco writer whose
new book Stay Up With Me has been glowingly described as ‘the
Great American Story Collection’. In this event, recorded live at
the Edinburgh International Book Festival, they read and discuss
their work. Since the event, Mai Al-Nakib has been announced as
the winner of the Book Festival's 2014 Readers First Book Award.