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Omar El Akkad:
I've sat through a wildly uncomfortable book tour interview once after I joked that I write all my nove. in Arabic and then run them through Google Translate, and the interviewer believed me. I have on countless occasions been made to stand in for and speak on behalf of every Muslim, every Arab, every Brown person on earth, by people who are not monsters, not even actively malicious, but simply have no other point of reference to consult.