{"id":394,"count":1,"description":"<p class=\"p1\">Bothayna Al-Essa is a novelist from Kuwait. Born in 1982, she holds a Master\u2019s in business administration from Kuwait University. She is the co-founder of Takween (a cultural platform, bookstore, and publishing house) and the author of ten novels, the most notable of which include: <i>Lost in Mecca <\/i>and <i>All That I Want to Forget, <\/i>which have been translated into English; <i>Under the Feet of Mothers,<\/i> which has been translated into Persian (as <span class=\"s1\">\u200e\u0628\u0647\u0634\u062a<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0645\u0627\u0645\u0627\u0646<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u063a\u064a\u0636\u0647<\/span>); and <i>Guardian of Superficialities<\/i>, which will be published in English in 2024. Furthermore, Al-Essa has written books on writing and has offered writing workshops throughout the Arab region. She has been writing full-time since 2013 and won Kuwait\u2019s National Encouragement Award twice for her fiction: in 2003 and 2012.<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_authors\/bothayna-al-essa\/","name":"Bothayna Al-Essa","slug":"bothayna-al-essa","taxonomy":"cb_authors","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bothayna Al-Essa Archives - DarArab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_authors\/bothayna-al-essa\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dararab.co.uk\\\/en\\\/cb_authors\\\/bothayna-al-essa\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dararab.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Bothayna Al-Essa\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bothayna Al-Essa Archives - DarArab","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_authors\/bothayna-al-essa\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/cb_authors\/bothayna-al-essa\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bothayna Al-Essa"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cb_authors\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cb_authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/cb_authors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/dararab.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?cb_authors=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}