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Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (Creative Workforce Fellowship), Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Ohio Arts Council, and John Carroll University for grants in support of the writing of this work. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. The Fellowship program is supported by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

Thanks to Rebecca Black, Hayan Charara, Sarah Gridley, Anna Meek, and Mary Weems for their extensive remarks on the manuscript. Thanks as well to Kazim Ali, Danny Caine, Michael Croley, Ian Demsky, Michael Dumanis, Fady Joudah, Marilyn Hacker, Chris Kempf, Dave Lucas, E.J. McAdams, Mark Nowak, Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. (RAWI), and Maria Smith and the Cleveland Nonviolence Network for your encouragement. For opening spaces.

Thanks as well to Justin Petropoulos for creating renditions of Bashmilah’s hand drawings of black sites.

Thanks to everyone at Alice James Books—especially Carey Salerno, Stephen Motika, Alyssa Neptune, Mary Austin Speaker, Julia Bouwsma, and Meg Willing—for making this happen.

And most importantly, thank you to Amy Breau, to whom this work is dedicated, for her constant companionship, her careful reading, her nurturing of our children Adele and Leila, and her invitation to a greater opening.

…it took the war to teach it, that you were responsible for everything you saw as you were for everything you did. The problem was that you didn’t always know what you were seeing until later, maybe years later, that a lot never made it in at all, it just stayed there in your eyes.

—MICHAEL HERR, Dispatches

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be?

—1 Corinthians 12:17