I wrote this collection of essays on feminism in Arabic. My essays detail the oppression Kuwaiti women experience daily in their personal and public life in Kuwait. The title of the collection “Crazy, Sick, Demented” reflects the names Kuwaiti men and misogynistic Kuwaiti women called me when I highlighted the misogyny of the Kuwaiti culture and its poor treatment of women. I hope to translate my essays to English.

The Stateless, also known as “Bedoon” are more than 50,000 longtime inhabitants in Kuwait. Denied citizenship, the Stateless live in extreme poverty, without access to health, work or education. While living in Kuwait I advocated for their human rights, I tried to raise awareness on what it means to be Stateless in Kuwait: I attended their peaceful protests and after watching them brutally beaten and then imprisoned by the Kuwaiti police, I blogged and wrote about it on Social Media, and did TV interviews. In 2012 I held a short story and poetry competition for the Stateless, I collected the submissions in a booklet, and gave the sale revenues to the Stateless children struggling to pay their school fees. It wasn’t much but it helped. This is Roots the collection of poetry and prose written by the Stateless in Kuwait. I hope to translate it in English someday soon.