Author: Shohreh Laici
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On Yahia Lababidi’s ‘Palestine Wail’ and the Poetry of Free Expression
“The opposite of love is not hatred but indifference.” I read this quote by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in Palestine Wail, a new book of poetry by Yahia Lababidi, and it took me back to Tehran and the years I had been a journalist there, living in a closed society ruled by a brutal regime.…