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EMINE SEVGI ÖZDAMAR The man started talking in Turkish, ‘Mari doesn’t live in Paris anymore.’ ‘Oh, oh!’ ‘She met someone two months ago and left for Canada with him. I live here now.’ ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘she was my best friend in Istanbul. Oh, dear, have I come too late, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh?’ Then I went silent.

MAHA HASSAN But Maha’s frightened gaze transfused me with a fear that was both similar and totally contrary. Maha was afraid of the female soldier she’d glimpsed through the window of the bus, just arrived at the Jordan–Israel border. Maha was afraid and felt something like revulsion.

ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ For once, it’s not about your mother, / father, not about deserts or exoduses / to other countries, but about you / and this canoe, about a river you find / yourself in, a moment where you stop / paddling, and in order to undergo / an “experience,” look at the horizon.

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