IAS Artist in Residence Hoda Barakat talks about the concept and the writing process for her upcoming novel

Award-winning novelist Hoda Barakat, Writer in Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study CEU from October 2017 to February 2018, talks about the concept and the writing process for her upcoming novel, tentatively titled "Courier de la Nuit." Barakat, winner of the Al-Naquid Prize as well as the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, is known as one of the most original voices in modern Arabic literature.