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Adrift - How the World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf; Frank Wynne (Translator)
Category: Culture
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. "Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor." -- The New York Times Book Review The United ...Show more
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
Category: Fiction
There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name?In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world. Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Ba ...Show more
Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World by Samuel Shimon & Amin Maalouf
Category: Fiction
'Beirut39' is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young Arab writers as a centrepiece of the Beirut World Capital festivities in April 2010. Following the successful launch of 'Bogota 39', which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, ...Show more
Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World by Amin Maalouf
Category: Politics and Current Affairs
In this brilliant exploration of the post-9/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-9/11 world as a 'clash of civilisations' Maalouf sees it as the 'exhaustion ...Show more
Disordered World : Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century by Amin Maalouf
Category: History
In this brilliant exploration of the post-9/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand how we have arrived at such disorder. He explores three different but related aspects of disorder: intellectual (manifested in an unleashing of statements on identity that ...Show more
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Category: Classics
Overview: "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I ...Show more
Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
Category: Fiction
From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and princesses, encompassing the complexities of a world in a state of religious flux. Hasan too is touched by th ...Show more
On Identity by Amin Maalouf
Category: social issues
The notion of identity -apersonal, religious, ethnic or national -ais one that has given rise to heated passion and crimes throughout human history. It is one that is at the heart of many of the most difficult social and political issues in the world today. What it is that makes each one of us unique an ...Show more
On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf; Natasha Lehrer (Translator)
Category: Science Fiction
In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other. "Lebanese-born French author Maalouf delivers an elegant portrait of a dyingworld. A beguil ...Show more
Origins by Amin Maalouf
Category: Biography Memoir
'We are, and always will be, wanderers who have lost their way...' When a trunk of family letters gives Amin Maalouf the opportunity to trace his past, he finds himself - having never before asked questions - transfixed by the stories of his ancestors. Starting in the mountains of Lebanon and taking him ...Show more
Origins: A memoir by Amin Maalouf
Category: Biography & Memoir
'We are, and always will be, wanderers who have lost their way ...' A prolific novelist and acclaimed historian of the Middle East, Amin Maalouf had never before taken the time to trace his own ancestry. But on the sudden death of his father he decides to address this, and, given a trunk of letters and ...Show more