GG AlNaemi

Maryam Al-Naemi stitched pearl-work onto wedding gowns in Doha for forty years. Her grandchildren showed her the online game and expected her to give it up within a week. She plays loose and lively, all instinct and warmth, gambling the cube on principle and crowing happily whenever she takes down one of their friends. A bad roll does not touch her. She is not here to win anything. She is here to keep up with the young, and she is keeping up. She keeps up literally: she plays the fastest format on the platform at eighty-seven, faster than most of the grandchildren, and she has never once asked anybody to wait.