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Jennifer Kaplan

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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

If you believe my grandmother’s version of the story, then her mother-my great-grandmother Rose Garden-must have been fifty years old when she finally decided to live with “Black Anees”…

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Edward and the First Geography Lesson

I still remember him like it was yesterday: a small man, elegant in his own special way, entirely different from traditional men's elegance, such as is found in a suit and tie. He used to buy his…

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Iraq Stories

Journalists who visit Iraq hear many stories, yet they are prevented from recording the majority of them because they must chase after the hot story, the quick journalistic news piece. A journalist might…

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

Homeland as Exile, Exile as Homeland

Iocasta: What is an exile’s life? Is it great misery?Polyneices: The greatest; worse in reality than in report.Iocasta: Worse in what way? What chiefly galls an exile’s heart?Polyneices: The…

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan