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Found in Translation An interview with poet and translator Khaled Mattawa BY FARID MATUK haled Mattawa’s new book, Zodiac of Echoes, has recently been published by Ausable Press. Born in Libya, Mattawa came to the United States as an exile at the age of 15. Until recently an assistant professor of English at the […]https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/about-the-texas-observer.jpg740402