Leila Aboulela’s Short Story Collection Elsewhere, Home

Leila Aboulela has been on a book tour recently with her short story collection  Elsewhere, Home which includes some of her earliest stories, like "Coloured Lights," as well as stories written more recently such as "Circle Line." Aboulela read from her new book at a book launch at the Migration Museum on July 4th. She was …

Leila Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies

Leila Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies, her fifth novel, explores the complexities of loyalty, religion and  nationalism, and the human yearning for belonging. The story is structured as two parallel narratives, a third person historical narrative set during the 19th century Caucasian war, and a contemporary narrative narrated in first person by Natasha Wilson, a …