Interview with Etel Adnan by Aftim Saba in the archives of Al Jadid

"In California, I was teaching. I was a philosophy professor; my immediate environment was not hostile. I personally never experienced discrimination in the college I was teaching at. I was adopted, so to speak, and was happy. But 1967 was a break; a little gap developed. I gave up a good job, tenure, a pension plan and went back to start from zero. I returned to Lebanon in 1972 with the hope that I will share our experience learned in America. The experiment did not last and failed for many reasons, among them the Lebanese Civil War, and I returned to America in 1979." - Etel Adnan in conversation with Aftim Saba from Al Jadid.

This article originally appeared in Vol. 4, No. 23, Spring 1998 of Al Jadid.

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