Jessy Assy earned her BA in English Literature & Minor in Creative Writing (2010) and M.A. in English Literature (2013) from the American University of Beirut. At present, she is a Full-time Rhetoric & Composition Instructor in the Communication Skills Department at AUB. As an American-Lebanese currently residing in Lebanon, her relationship with the Arab world is complicated, to say the least. She always feels more Lebanese than Armenian when speaking Armenian, and more Armenian than Lebanese when speaking Arabic. The golden mean – it seems – has always been English, so "home" for her has never been a place, but a person – two actually: her husband and her son.
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