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Ethan Chorin

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Ethan Chorin

Ethan Chorin was one of the first US diplomats to return to Libya in 2004–6, after the lifting of international sanctions....

He is the editor of Translating Libya, a collection of translations of sixteen Libyan short stories, and is cofounder of the Avicenna Group, which is building a medical training center in Benghazi, and which publishes LibyaWire. He is finishing a book on the roots of the 2011 Libyan uprising, to be published in Spring 2012.

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Articles by Ethan Chorin

Homeless Rats: A Parable for Postrevolution Libya

By Ethan Chorin

Libyan writer and diplomat Ahmed Ibrahim Fagih’s Homeless Rats is a quasi-fantastic historical novel that offers considerable insight into Libyan culture and geography, in particular that of the…

The Graffiti of Benghazi

By Ethan Chorin

Six months after the February uprising, there are several major differences in the physical appearance of Benghazi, Libya’s rebel capital. The city is unmistakably cleaner, the result of a few pre-uprising…

The Sultan’s Flotilla

By Sadiq Neihoum

The dog was a hideous sight, putrid, offensive, with gouged-out eyes.

Translated from Arabic by Ethan Chorin

The Locusts

By Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Fagih

Haj Salim is tilling his field, rippling with blades of wheat and barley. What's he doing?

Translated from Arabic by Ethan Chorin