Diana Abu-Jaber
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DIANA ABU-JABER is the author of, most recently, Origin and The Language of Baklava. She has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award, and other prizes. Her writing appears in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She is frequently featured on National Public Radio. She divides her time between Coral Gables, Florida, and Portland, Oregon.

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Writing In An Ambivalent Time

Posted September 20, 2011 | 17:26:21 (EST)

Just the other day, I stopped at an intersection: there are usually destitute people at this corner. They wander into traffic with handmade signs that say things like "No work. Need food for children." But on this day, I saw a young man carrying a sign that said "Border's liquidation...

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