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Qatari Voices
by
Carol Henderson,
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar (Goodreads Author)
Qatari Voices is the first anthology that represents 25 young creative Qatari authors. The anthology reflects concerns and aspirations of the young Qatari generation illustrated in essays and stories. They are intimate glimpses of old reminiscence and longing to the simple past, as well as photos that show concerns of a challenging present and aspirations to the future. Th...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
April 27th 2010
by Bloomsbury USA
(first published April 26th 2010)
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I met one of the editors of this anthology on Twitter recently and she sent me a link to check out her book list. All looked interesting but it was Qatari Voices that really caught my eye. This is the sort of non-fiction to which I’m drawn – exploring a new culture and taking myself out of my world. What I did not expect was to find as many commonalities as I did with this grouping of essays.
All are written with varied skill, as one would expect from students, but all are written with heart. The...more
All are written with varied skill, as one would expect from students, but all are written with heart. The...more
Qatari Voices is an anthology edited by two people — Carol Henderson and Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar — who organise a writing workshop at a Qatar university, supported by a grant from the US State Department. And this book is essentially a result of that project.
So it is not a book put together by someone who, seeing a vibrant natural growth of Qatari writing, was excited enough to organise an anthology. It is a collection of undergraduate essays written by students who are actually studying enginee...more
So it is not a book put together by someone who, seeing a vibrant natural growth of Qatari writing, was excited enough to organise an anthology. It is a collection of undergraduate essays written by students who are actually studying enginee...more
The short essays make it a fairly quick and enjoyable read. There is some overlap between essays, but they, together, paint a great picture of what was like for the grandparents of today's young Qataris. It's quite amazing how much life and society has changed so quickly with the discovery of oil. I can only imagine the tug-of-war in the hearts of the people as the elderly mourn the loss of culture and the youth fight for a modern society.
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