English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.
Elliott CollaThe corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.
Elliott CollaI think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.
Elliott CollaIn trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.
Elliott Colla