MAI AL-NAKIB

Kuwait Launch of Paperback Editions

Bliss and Paper Bookshop
(Dasman Complex, Kuwait City)

Lecture/Reading/Signing: "Four Notes on Writing and Flight"

The American University of Kuwait
(Salmiya, Multi-Purpose Room)

UK Launch of An Unlasting Home (SAQI Books): "In Conversation with Selma Dabbagh"

The Mosaic Rooms
(226 Cromwell Rd, SW5 0SW, London, UK)

Panel with Jayson Iwen and Naima Rashid, moderated by Hammad Rind: "The Migratory Experience of Language"

Ananke Women in Literature Festival
(watch online free)

Reading/Discussion/Signing: "An Evening with Mai Al-Nakib"

British Embassy, Kuwait
(by invitation only: The Residence, British Embassy, Dasman)

Reading/Discussion with Anne Katrine Bang: "Teaching Nietzsche in Kuwait"

Bergen International Literature Festival
(House of Literature, Alver)

Panel with Ece Temelkuran and Asieh Amini, moderated by Kari Jegerstedt: "Freedom and Literature in the Middle East"

Bergen International Literature Festival
(House of Literature, Auditoriet)

Reading: "The Listening Post: Maaza Mengiste, Ece Temelkuran, Mai Al-Nakib"

Bergen International Literature Festival
(House of Literature, Alver)

Lecture/Reading/Discussion: "In Conversation with Dalal Al-Fares"

Kuwait University, College of Arts
(Shdadiyya Campus, Room 3120)

Writer’s Meet Up: Featured Speaker/Reading/Signing

Alpassion
(Sirdab Lab, Al Tijaria Tower)

Book Club: "The Markaz Review Bookgroup discusses Mai Al-Nakib's An Unlasting Home with the Author"

(to get free link, email: books@themarkaz.org)

Virtual Workshop: “An Archaeology of Place”

Middle Eastern and North African Voices Writing Program
West Warwick Public Library
(Rhode Island, USA)

Kuwait Book Launch of An Unlasting Home

Zeri Crafts
(Salmiya Bl 9, Baghdad St, Ln 5, House 21)

Virtual Book Launch: “In Conversation: Mai Al-Nakib and Noor Naga”

Asian American Writers' Workshop
(watch online)

Panel with Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson, Khaled Fahmy, Alev Scott, Salim Tamari, Avi Shlaim: “Shifting Sands, Five Years On: What Future for the Middle East?”

Edinburgh International Book Festival
(watch online free)

Webinar with Rania Al-Nakib and Farah Al-Nakib: “Who Owns Your Story?”

Awaken Online Series
(Zoom ID 426-033-917)

Keynote Address: “Winning Hearts through Storytelling”

Service Hero Awards 2019
(JAAC, Kuwait)

Workshop Leader: “Narrative Arc”

Awaken Community Building Festival
(Niu, Business District One, Ali Al-Salem St, Kuwait City)

Reading/Discussion: “In Conversation with Ebtehal Al-Khateeb”

Berlin Salon
(German Ambassador's Residence, Kuwait)

Fishbowl Discussion: “Education and Its Role in Empowering Women”

Manara Coalition Forum on Women's Security in Kuwait
(Promenade Mall, Top Fl, Hawalli)

Session Leader: “Banned Books and Society”

Awaken Community Building Festival
Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah
(Yarmouk, Bl 3, St 3, Kuwait)

Keynote Address: “Finding Common Cause in Fiction”

Gulf University of Science and Technology English Language and Literature Conference
(GUST, Kuwait)

Panel with Randa Jarrar, Sinan Antoon, and Bothayna Al-Essa: “Migration, Identity, and Cultural Transformation”

American University of Kuwait Biennial Literary Festival
(Auditorium, AUK, Salmiya)

Reading/Lecture/Discussion: “Randa Jarrar and Mai Al-Nakib”

American University of Kuwait Biennial Literary Festival
(Auditorium, AUK, Salmiya)

Panel with Ebtehal Al-Khateeb and Aishah Al-Shatti: “The Red Line: Censorship and Literature”

Kuwait University, College of Arts
(Kaifan Campus, Al-Otaibi Building, Basement, Seminar 1)

Reading/Discussion: “In Conversation with Ebtehal Al-Khateeb”

Kuwait University, College of Arts
(Kaifan Campus, Al-Otaibi Building, Basement, Seminar 1)

Lecture: “Traveling Postcards: Retracing Kuwait's Modernity”
Gulf Studies Symposium 2017: Mobilities and Materialities of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula

American University of Kuwait
(Auditorium, Salmiya)

Lecture/Discussion: “Books That Changed Your Life”

Q8 Books at Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah
(Yarmouk, Bl 3, St 3, Kuwait)

Lecture: “Anonymity in the Age of Disclosure: Musings on Privacy and Publicity”

Gulf University of Science and Technology
(West Gate, Rm W1-010, GUST, Kuwait)

Lecture/Discussion: “How Literature Shapes the World”

Q8 Books at Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah
(Yarmouk, Bl 3, St 3, Kuwait)

Lecture: “On the Sidelines of Middle East Studies—Postcolonial Theory and Deleuze”

Postcolonial Studies and Modern Arabic Literature Conference
NYU Abu Dhabi
(Conference Center)

Discussion: “In Conversation with Susan Abulhawa”

American University of Kuwait
(Salmiya)

Panel/Lecture: “Effects of the Iraqi Invasion on Society and Culture”

Kuwait National Assembly
(to attend please register via link)

Lecture/Reading

University of Iceland, RIKK: Institute of Gender, Equality, and Difference
(National Museum, Lecture Hall)

Lecture/Reading

University of Iceland, Hosted by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and the Middle East Studies Program
(Árnagardur, Rm 422)

Reading Under the Stars

Al-Shaheed Park
(Circle of Peace, Al-Shaheed Park, Kuwait)

Panel: “Rising Stars—Mai Al-Nakib and May-Lan Tan”

Manchester Literature Festival
(International Anthony Burgess Foundation)

Lecture/Reading/Signing

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Hosted by the London Middle East Institute
(Russell Square, College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre)

Lecture: “The Death of the Reader, Or Why Bother Reading Today?”

Northwestern University in Qatar
(Rm 3069)

Panel with Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson, Khaled Fahmy, Avi Shlaim: “How Can We Think About the Middle East?”

Edinburgh International Book Festival
(Garden Theatre)

Launch of Paperback Edition

Q8 Books
(Bayt Lothan, Salmiya, Kuwait)

Lecture/Reading: “Evenings with an Author”

American Library in Paris
(10 rue du Général Camou, 75007)

Panel with Liz Fenwick: “It’s All in the Place”

Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
(Al Waha, InterContinental Hotel, Dubai)

Panel with Badriah Al Bishr and Inaam Kachachi: “Female Focus—Overcoming Barriers”

Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
(Al Baraha 2, InterContinental Hotel, Dubai)

Lecture/Reading

California College of the Arts
(Writers Studio, San Francisco Campus, 195 De Haro at 15th St)

Reading/Signing

Book Passage
(1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA)

Lecture/Reading

Stanford University, Hosted by Dept. of Comparative Literature, the Sohail and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, and the Center for the Study of the Novel
(Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Theresa St)

Discussion: “Lunchtime Conversation” (in Arabic)

Stanford University
(Main Quad Building 30, Rm 102)

Panel with Sinan Antoon, Lara Vapnyar, and Mónica de la Torre: “What Language To Write In?”

Columbia University, Hosted by the Writing Program and School of the Arts
(Dodge Hall, Rm 413)

Lecture/Reading

Harvard University, Hosted by the Center for Middle East Studies
(38 Kirkland St, Rm 102)

Lecture/Reading

Brown University
(Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs)

Reading/Signing

Symposium Books
(240 Westminster St, Providence, RI)

Lecture: “MENA External Communication Speaker Series”

The World Bank
(701 18th St, NW, Washington, DC)

Lecture/Reading

School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
(Rome Building, Rm 206, 1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC)

Lecture/Reading

Georgetown University, Hosted by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Dept of Arabic and Islamic Studies
(Intercultural Center, 37th and O St, Suite 241, Washington, DC)

Lecture/Discussion: “On Writing in English”

Cultural Circle Fourth Season
(Surra, Bl 4, St 16, House 27, Kuwait)

Lecture/Reading

Neriedes Hotel
(Platys Gialos, Sifnos, Greece)

Lecture/Reading

Giomisti Kefali Gallery
(Kikladon Xoros, Apollonia, Sifnos, Greece)

Panel with Selma Dabbagh and Marilyn Booth: “Living and Writing in the Middle East”

Edinburgh International Book Festival
(ScottishPower Foundation Studio)

Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series: “Syria”

Edinburgh International Book Festival,
(Royal Bank of Scotland Garden Theatre)

Panel: “Mai Al-Nakib and Tom Barbash—Champions of the Short Story”

Edinburgh International Book Festival
(Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre)

Lecture/Discussion/Reading: “In Conversation with Selma Dabbagh”

The Mosaic Rooms
(226 Cromwell Rd, SW5 0SW, London, UK)

Reading/Discussion: “Staff Book Club Lunch”

Bloomsbury Publishing Offices
(London, UK)

Reading/Discussion

Committee of 200 Forum
(Radisson Blu Hotel, Salwa, Kuwait)

Reading/Interview/Signing

Gulf University of Science and Technology, Hosted by the Dept of English and Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences
(West Gate, Rm W1-010, GUST, Kuwait)

Lecture/Reading/Signing

Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah
(Al-Maidan Cultural Center, Maidan Hawalli, Kuwait)

Lecture/Reading/Signing

Sultan Gallery
(South Subhan, Bl 8, St 105, Building 168, Kuwait)

Lecture/Reading/Signing

American University of Kuwait, Hosted by the Center for Gulf Studies and Sigma Tau Delta
(Central Garden)

Launch of The Hidden Light of Objects

Contemporary Art Platform
(Industrial Shuwaikh, Bl 2, St 28, Life Center, Kuwait)

Lecture/Reading

Qatar University
(Doha, Qatar)

Panel with Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

Literary Majlis, Hosted by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
(Msheireb Enrichment Center, Doha, Qatar)