Ethan Pack

Ethan Pack is an independent writer and translator, as well as a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). Pack's writing can be found at www.ethanpack.com. He has translated Survival by Uri S. Cohen, a critical study of Hebrew and Italian literature between the world wars, from Hebrew to English.

Pack has interned at The Charlie Rose Show. Pack graduated with honors from Columbia University in 2008, with a degree in Comparative Literature. Pack is fluent in Arabic and Hebrew, and has lived in Israel and Morocco, and traveled extensively in the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Jordan and Europe. In New York, Pack has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations as a researcher and translator, and at the New York Post as an editorial assistant. In Israel, Pack interned at the newspaper Ha’aretz in 2004 and 2006, translating, editing, and writing for the paper’s online English Edition. He has long been an activist in causes for Israeli-Arab co-existence, as well as minority rights, pluralism and community development in Israel.