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Silence Is a Sense

Layla AlAmmar

The Pact We Made

Fiction

Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

Biography or Memoir

Children's Book

Nonfiction

Palestine

Lebanon

Egypt

Syria

Iraq

Morocco

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Algeria

Türkiye

Iran

Jordan

Sudan

Yemen

Libya

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait

Oman

Bahrain

Art and Art History

Gastronomy

Feminism and Gender

Architecture and Urbanism

Philosophy

Anthropology and Society

Politics

Journalism and Media Studies

Psychology

Environment, Health, and Science

Literary Theory and Criticism

Religion and Spirituality

Business and Finance

Music

Political, Cultural, and Social History

<p>Layla AlAmmar is a writer and academic from Kuwait. She has an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her short stories have appeared in the Evening Standard, Quail Bell Magazine, the St Andrews University Prose Journal, and Aesthetica Magazine, where her story "The Lagoon" was a finalist for the 2014 Creative Writing Award. She was the 2018 British Council International Writer in Residence at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival. Her debut, THE PACT WE MADE, was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel, SILENCE IS A SENSE, was published in Spring 2021. She has written for The Guardian, LitHub, the Times Literary Supplement and ArabLit Quarterly. She is currently pursuing a PhD on the intersection of Arab women's fiction and literary trauma theory.</p>

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