“It sounds really good, my life,” the Palestinian Israeli writer Sayed Kashua said with a chuckle after he was introduced at San Francisco State University Tuesday evening. “But basically, I live in St. Louis and I’m a Ph.D. student now, so it’s very boring.” On the contrary, the creator of the popular Israeli TV series…
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