It was in New York that we found Mona Kareem for the continuation of the filming of Let the silence not prevail .
Writer and translator from Kuwait, Mona belongs to the bidoon minority - which means "without nationality" in Arabic. It was in 2011 that Mona fled Kuwait to settle in the United States on a scholarship. His chosen exile becomes a forced exile when the Kuwaiti government declines his request to renew his passport. After Boston and New York, she now teaches at St. Louis University, Missouri.
When Mona takes the path of exile, she knows that there will be a heavy price to pay: that of turning her back, probably forever, on her native country. She doesn't know if she will be able to see her family again, but she has chosen not to give in to this blackmail: she continues to write.
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