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Amin Maalouf
A story of love across an inseparable gulf and a powerful allegory for the conflict that has beset the Middle East for the last half century.
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Origins, by the world-renowned writer Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, inter-generational saga. This work is at once a gripping family chronicle and a timely consideration of Lebanese culture and politics.
This novel is based on the life story of the geographer Hasan as- Wazzan, who came to be known as Leo the African. It describes, amongst other things, how he…
A lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity - that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual. In this series of reflections, the author…
Retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, presents an intriguing chronicle of the Crusades, and offers insights into the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
