![]() ![]() It was when Sabar began his own career as a journalist and then became a father himself that the formidable challenges his father had faced began to earn his respect. My Father’s Paradise is Sabar’s quest to reconcile an ancient past with his own life today – and to knit his father’s story to his own. ![]() the odd-looking, funny-talking man with strange grooming habits who lived with us and who may or may not have been my father, depending on who was asking.” t some point, as a teenager, I even stopped calling him Abba or Dad. ![]() I kept my distance,” he writes of his father. If this sounds exotic or thrilling to the rest of us, it was nothing but mortifying to the youthful Sabar who was raised in Los Angeles. Sabar, who until recently covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for The Christian Science Monitor, is the son of an Iraqi Jew from Kurdistan, a gentle scholar forced from his homeland by politics, a man who grew up in a corner of the world so isolated that he was raised speaking the ancient Aramaic of Jesus. “Ours was a clash of civilizations, writ small,” writes Ariel Sabar of his relationship with his father. ![]()
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