I saw Kevin Howard’s reply, of sorts, to my most recent guest piece on my Arabic teacher, Safaa. Kevin presents, at length, one of many narratives on the tragic history of Israel/Palestine over the last 100+ years. I am not here to debate the narrative Kevin presented. A future that is almost impossible to conceive of at the moment, but one that I pray comes to reality for the sake of Safaa and Mustafa’s 10-month-old daughter Lana and every single person who calls that beautiful region home. Rick ShapiroOakley