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The literature of exile and belonging

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Personal Essay / May 4, 2023

I left a land that wasn’t mine

Jabès believed that language is a site of both longing and loss, a place where we try to make sense of the world around us but are constantly confronted with the limitations and ambiguities of words.

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Author's Spotlight / March 1, 2023

Reading Hisham Matar

 Living under the dictatorship regime and how it infiltrates intimacies
in our life is the subject he is very curious and often writes about
it.

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"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"

I left a land that wasn’t mine,
for another that’s not mine either.
I sought refuge in inked words, in books I had a place
-Edmund Jabes

To write is to accept the book's promise,
to hold it out to others.

To read is to be taken by the promise,
to let oneself be held by it.
-Edmund Jabes

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