Full-Time Novelist, Parent and OQ Employee For a full-time author, writing a book is no joke. For Amira Bait Ishaq, it’s so much more than that. Balancing her life between being a full-time mother, a full-time employee at OQ, and a novelist with an upcoming thriller, Amira narrates her journey from reading her father’s dark Russian literature books as a child, to writing her own novel today. Interviewed by Suha Al-Wahaibi, listen to this deeply personal story.