Superb Editor, Humble Christian, Peaceful Palestinian

  At the publishing house I directed for 24 years in Lebanon our chief translator and editor had unusual editorial skills.  As a translator he never wrote a word until he was sure he understood the intention of the English author, and in the end the work seemed to have originated in Arabic. The classical […]

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A Palestinian Poet’s Poem for Today or Any Day

  Recently, while traveling, circumstances beyond my control caused me to become uncommonly hungry.  Hunger is something I cannot endure well, because of a tendency to hypoglycemia. I have on occasions become dysfunctional, unable to think, and afterwards could not remember what I had done. But on the day I am speaking of, I just […]

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