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117/ The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung

The Fire These Times

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Is It Possible to Find a Community Overseas?

Lebanese-born writer has been living in the U.S. for years and moved back to Lebanon last year. She says she didn't really see herself as having that hyphenate identity at first. But now, "I'm someone who is paradoxically both very visible and also very uncomfortable with being visible" Lina Khatib: I think it was my way of accepting maybe I was kind of pushing my luck by going back this one time."

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