Kamal Al-Solaylee
Författare till Intolerable
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1964
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Aden, Yemen
- Bostadsorter
- Beirut, Lebanon
Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Utbildning
- University of Nottingham (PhD - Victorian Literature)
- Yrken
- professor (Journalism)
journalist
non-fiction author
memoirist - Organisationer
- Ryerson University
Globe and Mail
University of Waterloo
York University
Medlemmar
Recensioner
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Statistik
- Verk
- 3
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 144
- Popularitet
- #143,281
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 12
- ISBN
- 17
- Språk
- 1
This covered the 1960s (when the people of Yemen and Egypt were relatively free and not so constrained by religion) up to and including 2011. As Kamal yearned to leave, he hated to leave his mother and sisters behind, the way women were being treated by the time he got out. Some of his brothers had gone fervently religious, too much for Kamal’s liking. He tried to not look back on his life there, and even speaking to his family was difficult, as he was still hiding who he really was and it reminded him of how bad things were in the country he was born in. As things got worse in the Middle East, and in Yemen in particular with a civil war happening in 2011, he did seek out news from home.
This was really good. It was also very interesting, to read the cultural differences between the Middle Eastern countries he lived in and the Western countries. As a Canadian myself, it was really nice to see how accepted he was in Canada (Toronto, though I am from the West), regardless of his nationality and his sexual orientation. Completely not book-related, but as someone who has taken bellydance classes off and on, I had to take a brief break from reading to look up a famous Egyptian bellydancer his father hired to perform at one of his sisters’ weddings.… (mer)