It has been a long journey. In a way, this book goes back to my childhood because I grew up hearing myriad stories about the Middle East, and Israel/Palestine in particular.
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is a professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948 (Columbia University Press, 2024), Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (Reichert, 2012), and Geschichten über Geschichten: Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Elias Khoury (Reichert, 2001), and the co-editor of The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books (Skira, 2016), and Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (Routledge, 2012).