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I use writing to unify the two different languages my parents gave me.

— Leïla Sebbar

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Only there do I muster body and soul to span the two banks, both upstream and downstream.

I am there at the crossroads, serene at last, finally in my place; for I am a croisée seeking a connection; writing within a lineage, one that is always the same.

It is in fiction that I feel that I am a free subject (free of father, mother, clan, dogma) and strengthened by the burden of exile.

Beneath the French language I hear the language of my father's mother. It is no longer silent.

I want to hear them, write them in my mother's language, to gain access to the father, to the silence of his language — Arabic, the Arabic of my father.

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