Julia Schwartz is a translator from Brooklyn, New York, who has lived in Rabat, Fes, and Amman. She received her MA in Arabic from the University of Michigan in 2022 and currently lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Photo by Mohamad Masri
He was standing stiffly in the middle of one of the hospital’s rooms and looked like a small saint who had walked out of battle, with a miserable face and eyes that had lost…