Apologia
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Sorry for the silence in the last couple of days. I was busy finishing a piece on Zakes Mda (for The Nation) and now that it’s turned in I can spend some time online again.
Laila Lalami
Archive for August, 2007
Jaggi on Khouri
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
I missed this piece when it appeared in last weekend’s Guardian Review, until a reader kindly sent me the link: Maya Jaggi’s profile of Elias Khouri. Here’s a snippet:
Khoury may be well placed to assess the aspirations and tensions among Palestinians in Lebanon’s 12 camps, who remain “in closed ghettos, separated from Lebanese society”. As a young Lebanese at the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut in the 1970s, he spent years gathering from refugees their personal histories of the mass expulsions that attended the creation of Israel. He felt the stories should be given to an Arab Tolstoy, and imagined himself in the role (“everybody laughed”), but says, “I never dared write it then because I didn’t know how.”
More here.
Health Hazard
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
This is not the kind of thing you want to learn when you’re printing draft after draft of your book: Office printers are ‘health risk.’
