Between Sight and Sound
1982, Beirut, Lebanon. I am fourteen. School, some friends, a nice house facing the sea. My father is visiting from Dammam, Saudi Arabia, where he has been working since the mid-seventies. He visits two or…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Zeid Omran
Zeid Omran has lived through war, loss, exile, Bach and Rilke. His work explores identity shaped by displacement and the tension of belonging to both Western and non-Western worlds, yet fully to neither. An economist by training, he co-founded a research organization supporting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. He now lives in Southern California.