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Banned in Israel, Dorit Rabinyan’s Star-Crossed Romance Reaches U.S. Shores
Dorit Rabinyan’s third novel, All the Rivers, opens with FBI agents investigating the main character, Liat, for possible terrorist ties. Someone had reported her for suspicious activity: a Middle Eastern–looking woman writing from right to left in a neighborhood café. It’s 2003, two years after September 11. Liat, a 29-year-old Israeli Jew of Iranian descent, […]
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Jason De León Dares You to Look Away From the Items Border Crossers Leave Behind
In the summer of 2012, University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León was doing fieldwork in Arizona with his students when they discovered the body of an Ecuadorian woman. As De León would later discover, she had been abandoned by her smuggler and died of dehydration on a hillside in the Sonoran Desert. She’d been […]