- Group identity, Ethnicity, Identity (Philosophical concept), Ethnic relations
"The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud."
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Character-led, grave, spare and contemplative.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Amin Maalouf
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Yap Kredi Yaynlar, Alianza Editorial, Dār al-Nahār
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- tur, German, French, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9789657303559
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“How MANY TIMES, since I left Lebanon in 1976 to live in France, have people asked me, with the best intentions in the world, whether I felt "more French" or "more Lebanese"?”
Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين معلوف Arabic pronunciation: [maʕˈluːf]; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages. Of his several works of nonfiction, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is probably the best known. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios, as well as the 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the Académie française and was elected its Perpetual Secretary on 28 September 2023
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