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Laila Lalami

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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An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.

Laila Lalami
Rereading the master.
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