Anwar Accawi was born in a tiny hamlet about a day's walk from Sidon, a coastal city in the south of Lebanon. He attended an American missionary school and won a scholarship to attend Warren Wilson College from 1965–1969. He left Lebanon for the USA with his family in 1975 when the Lebanese civil war broke out. His collection of essays, The Boy from the Tower of the Moon, was published by Beacon Press in 1999. He retired from his position teaching ESL at the University of Tennessee in 2013.
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