I felt like the gates of something huge had opened': Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller

Kalthami channels his anxieties about the whiplash pace of change in the kingdom into his protagonist Fahad, a self-sabotaging food-delivery driver.

I'm a Riyadh boy all the way. I've lived in the area for 40 years and I've seen it going through so many phases.

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