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associate prof, modern arabic lit @uchicago. i think and write about beirut (and leaving it). it's "not research" according to federal guidelines.
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24-11-2010 21:24:30
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"The powerful, angry energy on the streets and at the protest sites is the most transformative, wildly optimistic thing I have ever experienced in my life," writes Lina Mounzer, about the protests in Lebanon nyti.ms/2P3K4ML
Yazan and Omar's piece for The Nib ✒️ recapping the sparks that set Lebanon ablaze on October 17. #لبنان__ينتفض thenib.com/lebanon-is-bur…
"even after the virus disappears, we will still have to keep living the smaller lives it taught us to live.” true for many, but an even grimmer reality in places like Lebanon, as Lina Mounzer points out: nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opi…
"perhaps that is why, then, the truest sign of unbridled, irrevocable disaster is when the figurative becomes literal, when the destruction is so large scale it erodes the distance between fact and allegory" only Lina Mounzer can aptly render the ineffable horror of lebanon's now
thinking of how many times I said/wrote 'hamdillah' this past week, and paused wearily at this reflexive (yet deeply felt) gratitude. as Sherine Al Shallah | شيرين الشلاح writes, we have to learn to say we are not ok.
so happy for Hoda Shakry and katie (and the other winners I don't know)! what an amazing lineup of books!!
come see what we're getting up to tonight at 7:30 chicago time! event details Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry website
