Becka Mara McKay

Poet and translator Becka Mara McKay is an assistant professor of translation and creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. Her book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, is out now from Shearsman Books. In 2008, her translation of Suzane Adam’s novel Laundry was published by Autumn Hill Books. Her translation of Alex Epstein’s collection Blue Has No South is currently available from Clockroot Books.

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Why I Agree with Nasrallah (Well, Sort of...)

Israel would do well to look at the reflection before us, in Lebanon, and to listen to the Hezbollah leader’s call for unity, as though it were a warning from our future. But we shouldn’t follow his suggestion of uniting for the sake of confronting an enemy. Israelis—Jewish, Muslim, and Christian—must join hands in order to build a better country and a stronger Middle East.

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