Can the Bilingual Speak?

In loving memory of Emile Habiby, 1921–1996 “… Fragments. Or the anecdote as a form of knowledge.”               —Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude A couple of years ago, I was kindly invited, in monolingual English, to be a panelist at a conference on bilingualism, on account of my dubious lingual past in Arabic and […]

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In loving memory of Emile Habiby, 1921–1996 “… Fragments. Or the anecdote as a form of knowledge.”               —Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude A couple of years ago, I was kindly invited, in monolingual English, to be a panelist at a conference on bilingualism, on account of my dubious lingual past in Arabic and