
The Body and the Border
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by Adania Shibli, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
October 22, 2020 issue
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Robyn Creswell is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale. He is the author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut. (October 2020)
The Body and the Border
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