Arabic Literature, Palestine & The Art of Translation with HUDA FAKHREDDINE

<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">“I'm Lebanese. I grew up in Lebanon during the Civil War, and I came to the United States as a graduate student with the intention of going back. I never wanted to stay here. I really thought that my life would happen in Beirut, in a city that I loved and hated in the healthiest of ways. My investments, both literary and intellectual, were rooted there. I came here as a graduate student and joined the PhD program, and then the events continued to unfold there, making life more and more of a risk, building a life in a place like Lebanon. The most important counterpoint in my life was meeting my partner, Ahmad Almallah, who is Palestinian. So immediately, my life became the life of a Palestinian by association.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Of course, the past two years—almost two years—have been surreal. I sometimes don't believe that we're going through what we're going through...