Middle East Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

Ten Saudi Women Writers

Middle East June 5, 2023

This week, to celebrate the release of an audiobook version of Girls of the Empty Quarter (also published as Teacher, We Girls!), my memoir...

My Memoir about Living in Saudi Arabia

Memoir November 14, 2019

Between 2011 and 2012 my husband John and I lived and taught in Najran, Saudi Arabia. It was one of the strangest, most interesting...

Teaching the Kuwaiti Officer Corps

Memoir November 12, 2018

Candid classroom conversations with students on an undisclosed army base in Kuwait. Crazy Khalid “Guys! Listen! Hey!” Ten minutes into English class and the talking (in...

Child’s Play in Kuwait

Memoir November 10, 2018

When we lived in Kuwait, I taught in the mornings but my afternoons were free. Since there are limited amusements in that dust-bath of...

First Day on the Job

Memoir September 11, 2021

The following is an excerpt from my memoir about teaching in Saudi Arabia, Teacher, We Girls!, which is now available on Smashwords. It describes...

Middle East

Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

Tolkien in Italy