The second installment of my column “Invisible History,” at Catapult looks at my father—his bicultural heritage as an American born son of Arab immigrant parents and the conflicts he faced living between cultures. I’m so grateful to Catapult and to Nicole Chung for this opportunity! And especially thrilled I’m able to include family photographs and other images. For this latest column, “Why My Father Could Not Embrace His Name,” the cover image is a watercolor my father painted, likely sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
