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Anton Shammas
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “writer and translator”. Today it says “palestinian writer”.
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Anton Shammas ( , ; born 1950), is a Palestinian writer, poet and translator of Arabic, Hebrew and English. University of Michigan . : CS1 maint: url-status ( link )1
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “writer and translator”. Today it says “palestinian writer”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
writer and translator
Now
palestinian writer
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