Hisham Matar - When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American scho...

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When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

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Als ich 12 Jahre alt war und in Kairo lebte, schrieben mich meine Eltern in der amerikanischen Schule ein. Die meisten Amerikaner schienen merkwürdig erstickt zu sein, entschlossen, in den Vereinigten Staaten zu bleiben, wenn nicht physisch, dann sentimental.

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