“A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.”

— Amin Maalouf, book In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

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Francophone Lebanese writer based in France 1949

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