Ayala Ben Lulu's “Mona Lisa” - Listen - Israel in Translation

Ayala Ben Lulu's “Mona Lisa”

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This week Marcela returns to focus on up and coming Israeli writers who have rarely or never before been translated into English, by featuring Ayala Ben Lulu. “Mona Lisa” appears in the latest issue of The Ilanot Review, which was a collaboration with Granta Hebrew.

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