![]() ![]() We’ll ask them about literature as a path to empathy, or as an experience of the other, or simply as a ticket out. About what it means to be a Palestinian author or a Muslim one, an Israeli author or a Jewish one. We’ll be talking about a writer’s consciousness in war, and a writer’s identity in a war-torn region. In the culmination of another shattering week of news, and of Open Source shows about Israeli approaches to the war, the optics of the conflict, and a generational history of the Muslim world, we’re talking to these two friends together. Keret is an Israeli, El-Youssef a Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon and now lives in London. They’re both writers - of novels, screenplays, short stories, essays, and comics. ![]() We first read about Etgar Keret and Samir El-Youssef in Lisa Goldman’s blog two weeks ago. ![]()
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