Kutubna English Book Club – July 2025

Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025

Time: 10 am

Registration fee: FREE

Theme: Arab Women’s Writing

Language: English

Age: Adults & young adults (16+)

Format: Group discussion guided by our facilitator

Location: Kutubna Cultural Center, Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai 

This Month’s Theme

This month's book club will center on Arab women’s writing — a powerful lens into identity, resistance, memory, and truth-telling.

We’ll be exploring how Arab women authors share their experiences and perspectives with the world. How do they tell their truths? Are they doing justice to the lives and histories they draw from? What feels exaggerated, what feels raw, and how can we begin to tell the difference?

Join us for a lively and reflective discussion around this month’s selected reads.

Reading List

• My Travels Around the World — Nawal El Saadawi
• Babylon, Albion — Dalia Al Dujaili
• The Hidden Light of Objects — Mai Al-Nakib
• Something Strange, Like Hunger — Malika Moustadraf

Books are available at Kutubna (online & in-store). Reading all of them is not mandatory — join us even if you’ve read just one!

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