Sadaa al-Daas is an award-winning Kuwaiti playwright, author, and literary critic. Her works include Li’annī aswad (2010; Because I am black) and the short-story collection Mā lā taʿrifahu ʿan al-amīrāt (2017; What you don’t know about princesses). She heads the Department of Criticism at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Kuwait.
Portrait number four from Second Skins Collection, photography by Miguel Vallinas Prieto
In this Kafkaesque story, two startling discoveries follow the transformation of a man’s environm…