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Graham Liddell

Contributing Writer

Graham Liddell is a former editor of the news site Middle East Eye whose writing also has appeared in The Detroit News, Huck Magazine and AlterNet. He is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he is researching the role of storytelling among Arabic- and Persian-speaking refugees.

 

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Love of soccer bridges huge cultural divides in diverse Michigan city

By Graham Liddell | April 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Love of soccer bridges huge cultural divides in diverse Michigan city

HAMTRAMCK, Michigan — With two boys in maroon soccer jerseys in the back seat of her SUV, Maria Martínez navigates slippery, pot-holed streets past the chain-link fencing of a General Motors assembly plant slated for closure, multi-lingual awnings of Yemeni restaurants and Polish bakeries, a green-and-white brick neighborhood mosque and the neon signs of a…

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