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	Amin Maalouf
		Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, as a Catholic Arab.
		In Samarkand (1989) Maalouf spins fact and fiction around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, created in Samarkand in 1072 A.D. The manuscript is claimed to have vanished on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
		Maalouf gives the reader an exotic and vivid picture of 11th-century Persia, with assassins and intrigues, and returns to it 900 years later through the eyes of an American academic searching for the manuscript.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /maalouf.htm (1283 words)

	Amin Maalouf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amin Maalouf, born (25 February 1949) in Beirut, Lebanon is a Lebanese author.
		Amin's father, Ruchdi, was from the Melchite or Greek Catholic community, which recognises the Pope while retaining some Byzantine rites.
		The parson's son (Maalouf's grandfather) was a "rationalist, anticlerical, probably a freemason, and refused to baptise his children".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amin_Maalouf (319 words)

	Amin Maalouf: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amin Maalouf (25 February, 1949) in Beirut (Capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean), Lebanon (An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean)) is a Lebanese author.
		He worked as a journalist (A writer for newspapers and magazines) in Beirut until the start of the civil war in 1975, when he moved to Paris (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) as a refugee.
		Maalouf writes in French (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France), and his works have been translated into many languages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amin_maalouf.htm (165 words)

	Maalouf, Amin
		Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, as a Catholic Arab.
		Maalouf gives the reader an exotic and vivid picture of the 11th-century Persia, with assassins and intrigues, and returns to it 900 years later through the eyes of an American academic searching for the manuscript.
		Maalouf has regularly used fantasy elements in his novels, but The First Century after Beatrice (1992) was his first full-length futuristic tale, in which female birth has become increasingly rare due to a new fertility drug.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Maalouf/Maalouf.htm (756 words)

	Korstågen enligt araberna av Amin Maalouf - Alhambra Förlag - Klassiker
		Korstågen enligt araberna av Amin Maalouf - Alhambra Förlag - Klassiker
		Amin Maalouf, född i Libanon 1949, har varit bosatt i Paris alltsedan 1976.
		Amin Maaloufs författarskap har sedan dess utökats med fem romaner, för Tanios Klippan (1993) tilldelades han det högsta litterära priset i Frankrike samma år; Goncourtpriset.
	www.alhambra.se /klassisk/maalouf_korstagen.htm (274 words)

	Amazon.com: Leo Africanus: Books: Amin Maalouf
		Amin Maalouf has done an outstanding job in creating a very readable largely biographical work of a remarkable man. While a fiction there are no historical inaccuracies and a tremendous degree of accuracy in corroborating the event of this magnificent work with actual history.
		Amin Maalouf did not attempt to paint a picture that support a certain vision of history or advances a certain agenda.
		The one agenda that Amin Maalouf may have had in mind and advanced beautifully is that the world is full of wonderful people; they come in different religions, different colors and different ethnicity and they speak different languages.
	www.amazon.com /Leo-Africanus-Amin-Maalouf/dp/1561310220 (1744 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books \| Identity crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maalouf is, however, of course equally unsympathetic towards Islamic fundamentalism as he is to many of the present regimes existing in the region.
		Maalouf succeeds only too well in drawing attention to the dangers that lie ahead, but he relies too much on wishful thinking and the goodwill of those possessing the necessary clout to dictate things on their own terms when looking for ways in which the brakes can be applied.
		Amin Maalouf, living now with the identity of a Frenchman, remarks that many of his friends speak of globalisation as if it were some sort of global catastrophe.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/524/bo3.htm (1309 words)

	Guardian \| A son of the road
		Amin Maalouf was a journalist in Lebanon until the civil war in 1975, when he left for Paris with his family.
		Maalouf, who believes the level of civilisation of any society can be determined by the place of women, is concerned by a "gap between the material and moral evolution of mankind".
		Maalouf is working on another libretto for Saariaho, set in a Balkan "country at war", and a fictionalised family memoir.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4546705-110428,00.html (3527 words)

	[Reader-list] Amin Maalouf
		Maalouf states that many people see globalization as a threat to their "culture, identity and values." This is certainly true of disaffected intellectuals, not just in the old colonial peripheries, but especially in the West itself.
		Maalouf recognizes this: "Secularism without democracy is a disaster for democracy and secularism alike." Islamism in Egypt or Algeria came in the wake of failed state socialism.
		Amin Maalouf may not have all the answers to such dangers, but he is a rare voice of sanity in this murderous discord.
	mail.sarai.net /pipermail/reader-list/2002-March/001278.html (3320 words)

	Amin Maalouf - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this delicate and compassionate novel Amin Maalouf brings the struggles in the Levant in the wake of World War II painfully to life.
		In this important series of reflections the distinguished novelist Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese who now lives in France, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world¹s different cultures.
		Maalouf emphasises the importance of respecting the multiplicity of identity and the dangers of reducing it to a single, simple core.
	webperso.easyconnect.fr /barriere/maalouf/english/livres.html (1325 words)

	Bibliography and recommendations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios: This Prix Goncourt winner shows a wonderful understanding of the nature of the Mountain people, articulated with subtle conversation and custom.
		Amin Maalouf, Les Echelles du Levant: A story that starts in Turkey and ends in Lebanon, made tragic by the different conflicts of the Middle East.
		Amin Maalouf, Les Jardins de Lumière: The life and philosophy of Mani, the man at the origin of the word manicheism.
	www.cedarseed.com /water/lebbooks.html (430 words)

	Gettysburg College-Musselman Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maalouf emphasizes the importance of respecting the multiplicity of identity and the dangers of reducing it to a single, simple core.
		Amin Maalouf has written several novels focusing on the Middle East, Africa and the Mediterranean.
		Maalouf was born in Beirut in 1949, grew up in a small Christian community, and emigrated to France in 1976.
	www.gettysburg.edu /library/identity (515 words)

	The Hindu : Need for a nation-state
		Maalouf, a Lebanese Catholic living in France, argues that identity begins by "reflecting a perfectly permissible aspiration" but becomes a "false friend".
		Those religions which define themselves in global terms, Maalouf suggests, are "global tribes: tribes because of their stress on identity, global because of the way they blithely reach across frontiers.
		Maalouf "dreams not of a world where religion no longer has any place but of one where the need for spirituality will no longer be associated with the need to belong.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mag/2001/11/25/stories/2001112500170300.htm (1418 words)

	In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong, By Amin Maalouf. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York: Arcade ...
		Maalouf’s self-described task in this book is “to try to understand why so many people commit crimes nowadays in the name of religious, ethnic, national or some other kind of identity,” how what he calls “identities that kill” are made and sustained.
		Maalouf refers to these constitutive allegiances as “genes of the soul” though he cautions that they are in no way understood to be innate.
		At times, the text reads as though Maalouf viewed the contemporary problem of identity-based violence primarily as a cognitive distortion that might be solved if we only could find a way of reforming long-standing but unexamined habits of thought that imprison us in outdated and dangerous ways of seeing the world.
	www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/hrj/iss15/booknotes-In.shtml (987 words)

	Amin Maalouf Talks about his latest book Origins,
		And although the Maalouf story is unique, it will remind many Lebanese readers of their own family histories, full of the adventures particular to migrant people.
		Maalouf: I wouldn't exactly use the word “migrant.” Boutros had given himself for the mission to improve the country, and in that sense, he might have been a little naïve.
		Maalouf: Emigration is a Lebanese characteristic but we find this tradition in other countries.
	www.aljadid.com /interviews/AminMaaloufTalksabouthislatestbookOrigins.html (1113 words)

	Kurt Koenigsberger MLA 2002
		By contrast, Amin Maalouf, whose recent work represents a plea for cosmopolitanism and the acceptance of the multiple allegiances of contemporary identities, renders this attenuated image of Leo more robust by recuperating his voice in the novel Leo Africanus.
		Maalouf's novel has Yeats's work distinctly in mind, taking as its epigraph a line from the "Leo Africanus" manuscript, and the collaboration between Maalouf and Leo Africanus, in which the former builds upon the writing and life narrative of the latter, accomplishes several things in relation to that earlier dialogue.
		It is precisely this difference that Maalouf champions in his novel by emphasizing Leo as a model for what James Clifford calls "traveling cultures," a notion that emphasizes the "translocal" as a cultural dominant and reorients our thinking away from "relations of dwelling" and toward "relations of travel" (Clifford 7, 22).
	www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2002/Koenigsberger_MLA.html (3033 words)

	Friends of the Salzburg Festival
		Amin Maalouf is author of a number of historical novels: Leo Africanus, Samarkand, The Man from Mesopotamia, The Return of Skarabäus, Les jardins du lumière, Le premier siècle après Beatrice.
		AMIN MAALOUF: I hold for permanent observation by the international community of the relations between the various groups in a country.
		AMIN MAALOUF: The humanism on which we hope to build the world of tomorrow must be based on the universality of fundamental values and on the diversity of cultural expression.
	www.festspielfreunde.at /english/frames/200006/ef_200006_10.htm (1073 words)

	A Tunisian in the UK - تونسي في بريطانيا
		Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese novelist living in France.
		In Léon l'Africain, Amin Maalouf depicts the life of a genuine figure of the 15th-16th century: Hassan Al Wazzan (حسان الوزان) or, maybe, (حسن الوزان) known to the West as Jean-Léon de Médicis, the geograph.
		This fantastic tale of a figure that lived in the West and in the East is very captivating and Amin Maalouf made it hard for the reader to halt for a pause.
	ichihi.blogspot.com (2320 words)

	Honorary Doctorates Program Revived: First Awards in More Than Thirty Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amin Maalouf was next, and his doctorate was in Humane Letters - arts and letter.
		He said that Maalouf is always listening to historical origins, and is a man at the crossroads, aware of the corridors of wealth, power, and pilgrimage that have linked the Mediterranean to Europe, the Far East and to Africa.
		Maalouf regretted that the dream of his forefathers of achieving for this land the highest levels of freedom, human dignity, scientific research advancement and development of ideas, has not been fulfilled.
	www.aub.edu.lb /news/archive/preview.php?id=30514 (1433 words)

	Essay: Al-Qaeda and The New Assassins: Thoughts on Reading Maalouf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maalouf is a writer (/ journalist) whose native language was Arabic, but who now writes his works in French and has won France's most prestigious literary award (Prix de Goncourt).
		Maalouf goes on to say that "The memory of these atrocities, preserved and transmitted by local poets and oral traditions, shaped an image of the Franj [i.e.
		In Maalouf's view, these and other events convinced the Arabs that the Western invaders were barbarians; and in many respects, he says, this was an accurate appraisal; the near-East was arguably the most advanced civilization on the planet at that time, with complex leading-edge systems of literature, mathematics, medicine, and justice.
	www.rowatworks.com /Essays/maalouf.html (1876 words)

	Islam Online - The World In Crisis - Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, Maalouf does not merely offer his reflections, but rather, he tries to postulate an ideal solution to this problem, particularly for those in Europe who have the prospect of cultural disintegration as most of it joins the European Union.
		Maalouf explains that Christianity has adapted to suit the “needs” of the public, allowing sexual freedom and democracy.
		Maalouf has, as he says, merely “scratched the surface” of the issue by reflecting on a matter in which he is well qualified due to his own multi-faceted identity.
	www.islamonline.net /english/crisis/BookReviews/article5.SHTML (1887 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Review: Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
		It's difficult to define exactly what Amin Maalouf is - he is a polymath, certainly, and a scholar, a novelist and a journalist, a former director of the Beirut daily an-Nahar, editor of Jeune Afrique.
		But Maalouf, for better or worse, is no imp in blue jeans and a Jermyn Street shirt.
		What is common to Maalouf's wide-ranging works - six of his novels have been translated into English - is his apparent belief that through examining and understanding a particular historical period we can gain a better understanding of our present time.
	books.guardian.co.uk /impac/story/0,14959,1285732,00.html (759 words)

	Amin Maalouf
		La raison, écrit Amin Maalouf, est due au fait que l?appartenance à une communauté de croyants « est la moins éphémère, la mieux enracinée,...
		Poète, journaliste (rédacteur en chef de la revue Jeune Afrique), Amin Maalouf se consacre depuis 1984 à l’écriture romanesque et aux ouvrages historiques.
		Amin Maalouf, qui vit en France depuis 1976, est certainement l’un des écrivains libanais francophones les plus doués de sa génération.
	www.livres-online.com /-Maalouf-Amin-.html (745 words)

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		Amin Maalouf has written seven novels, including The Gardens of Light,Leo Africanus,The Rock of Tanios,which won the Goncourt Prize in 1993, and Balthasar's Odyssey,published by Arcade in 2002.
		Maalouf does not naively demand that personal identities be dismissed, but suggests a number of ways in which identities can remain intact and might form not a "meaningless sham equality" but "rather the acceptance of a multiplicity of allegiances as all equally legitimate." Utopian realism at its finest.
		Maalouf's whole essay is an intriguing plead for more balanced attitudes to patchwork identities.
	www.arcadepub.com /onix?isbn=1559705930 (722 words)

	CafeArabica Souk
		The mystic exercised a powerful attraction over his disciples - rulers and scholars, itinerant merchants, shippers, baptists and sages who inhabited the shores of the Tigris - and was hated by the Magi, the high priests of Zoroastrianism who felt threatened and eventually had him imprisoned, tortured and killed in 276 AD.
		Amin Maalouf brings life and color to the character and times of Mani.
		Amin Maalouf won the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios.
	www.cafearabica.com /store/merchant.ihtml?pid=87&step=4 (204 words)

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		In exploring this question, Maalouf shows the power of the humanist, literary or philosophical essay to open us to new imaginative possibilities and perspectives, to enter the mind, thoughts, soul of one deeply feeling individual so as to see ourselves and the world in a completely fresh way.
		I’ve called Maalouf a French prize-winning novelist, but I am misleading, distorting here because the point of this simultaneously soothing and stimulating work is the complexity and fluidity of identity.
		By the time he carefully describes the many, many layers of his own constantly evolving identity as a writer, a Christian Arab, a member of the EU, as someone who has incorporated the history and culture of a number of places into his being, you will be deeply engaged.
	www.psr.org /documents/psr_doc_0/program_1/In_the_Name_of_Identity.doc (794 words)

	Broken Kode \| We’re All Broken Kode » Blog Archive » Amin Maalouf - Leo the African
		After completing Leo the African, I can easily say that Amin Maalouf is the heir apparent for the best literary voice to have come out of that tiny little country.
		Hasan was born in Granada during the fall of the Muslims from Spain.
		You feel his pain, and Maalouf uses a trick I only noticed clearly in storytelling terms when I was watching Babylon 5.
	www.brokenkode.com /archives/amin-maalouf-leo-the-african (830 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement (June 2001) \| Like the constant hum of a longed-for joy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amin Maalouf is now internationally regarded as one of the great literary voices of the Arab world and one of the best authors writing in French today.
		As the novel closes, and the first narrator's voice leaves Ossyane at the Quai de l'Horloge in Paris, the narrative returns to that fading photograph lost in a Lebanese textbook of the 1950s.
		The novel as a whole is the tale of such a snapshot, or the exegesis of such an historical footnote, and in this beautiful, carefully written book, Maalouf has told a story of immense humanity against a backdrop of war.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/538/bo6.htm (612 words)

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