Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Nation.
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Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Nation.
An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.
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