Janice Weizman is the author of The Wayward Moon, an award-winning historical novel set in the ninth-century Middle East. Her writing and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in World Literature Today, Lilith, Consequence, the Jerusalem Report, and the Tel Aviv Review of Books. Originally from Toronto, Weizman has lived in Israel for over thirty years.
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Israel and Lebanon, Hebrew and Arabic—so close, yet so far away.
I'm driving down the coastal road, flashes of bright blue sea, glimmering gold and silver in...