An Interview with Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki

Author interview · 10 Aug 2023

Dancing Into the Light: An Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East by Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki

Growing up with parents from two cultures in the Middle East, plus stereotypes, grief, family and dancing.

Her first nonfiction book recalls a childhood across Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jerusalem, raised between her American mother's culture and her Jerusalem-born father's, and framed by memories of dancing.