Memoirs & Life Lessons

Through Exile, I Reinvented Myself

Reflections on a peripatetic life

Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz station. Photo by Rebecca Ruth Gould.

Around the time of the Arab Spring, I came to understand that I would never return to the land of my birth. I would visit, certainly, but never live there again. Since I never managed to create a home for myself in the United States, the country of my birth, this did not strike me as a…