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Posts Tagged: love addiction

Pursuing the Unattainable: A Conversation with Zaina Arafat

By Emily Stochl

May 13th, 2020

Zaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.

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Tags: Andrea Lawlor, anorexia, appetite, Arab, Arab diaspora, bisexual, bisexuality, catapult, childhood trauma, closeted, coming out, control, debut novel, Diaspora, disordered eating, Eating Disorder, edward said, Emily Stochl, existentialism, Haruki Murakami, homophobia, identity, immigrant, immigrants, iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Writers' Workshop, jordan, LGBTQ, love addiction, memory, Mental Health, mental illness, MFA, middle east, Midwest, mothers, mothers and daughters, Murakami, Orientalism, palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian American, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, philosophy, queer, running, sexuality, shame, teaching, teaching writing, trauma, Western gaze, white gaze, You Exist Too Much, Zaina Arafat

Voices on Addiction: The Promises

By Cameron Dezen Hammon

October 22nd, 2019

In my secret mind I saw him; I spoke to him every day.

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Tags: addict, addiction, Cameron Dezen Hammon, cheating, Christianity, church, husbands and wives, infidelity, love addiction, marriage, recovery, religion, Sex, sex addiction, sexuality, sobriety, Voices on Addiction, withdrawal

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