Topic: Activist

Women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul released from Saudi jail

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Maktoob Staff - February 12, 2021

Hathloul was detained in May 2018 and sentenced in December to nearly six years in prison. The 31-year-old still faces a five-year travel ban ordered by the court.

Institutionalising inequality would take India nowhere: Arundhati Roy

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Maktoob Staff - January 13, 2019

On Saturday, In the 4th edition of Kerala Literature Festival, Sohini Ghose who shared the dais with Arundhati Roy asked her about the politics in Roy’s non-fiction works.