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Jennifer Kaplan

Contributor

Jennifer Kaplan

Jennifer Kaplan received her B.A. in Near Eastern Studies--Arabic Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at New York University. She has lived and studied in Tunis and Cairo, among other places.

Articles by Jennifer Kaplan

The Black Storyteller

I remember that in 1967, when I was a child, only five years old, I told her about my fear-a strange thing; I don't know where it came from.

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Edward and the First Geography Lesson

Now we begin the journey. Don't be shocked by the job I charge you with.

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Iraq Stories

They are simple stories, most of which have nothing to do with blood or death or disappearance or mass graves. Rather they are gaunt like a body exhausted by disease, and describe the general situation in Iraq.

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Basra Stories

I was born in Basra many times, in all of the stories that I heard about it-in the stories which were told around me when I was a child, in the images I formed of it during my first trips there with my…

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Homeland as Exile, Exile as Homeland

This temporal and spatial here and there are interchangeable according to the power of the artist's passion and perseverance in making his art, as well as his eternal alliance with the higher power that he recognizes and his refusal to bow down to temporary…

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan