Shir Alon is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research and reviews of modern Arabic and Hebrew cultures have appeared in WLT,boundary 2, Arab Studies Journal, Comparative Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues.
Photo by Moheb Soliman / From the series Tidings / A Protocol of Circulation, Washing Up & Will
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