In “A Snapshot of Life in an Authoritarian Culture,” I depersonalized my own experience because if I set the story where it happened, in the Middle East, the reaction of many Western readers is “well, what did you expect? We know that’s the way life is over there, but it can’t happen here. Our historical experience is different, our culture is different…
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