Karl El Sokhn

Karl El Sokhn is an assistant professor of instruction in the English and Creative Writing department at Columbia College Chicago. His work uses the expansive quality of translation to unearth the socio-cultural discrepancies between his native country (Lebanon) and his country of refuge (America). His writing deals with the prevailing issues of the Lebanese Diaspora, the psychosocial impact of immigration, and the preservation of Lebanese cultural vestiges through writing.

The Third Largest Blast

Again and again, like any other day, people wake up and go about their business and look at the world around them...