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1) Origins
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Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth-in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba-Origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf's paternal grandfather, Boutros Maalouf.
Maalouf sets out to discover the truth about why Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon,...
2) Léon l'Africain d'Amin Maalouf (Fiche de lecture): Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
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Décryptez Léon l'Africain d'Amin Maalouf avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Léon l'Africain, le roman historique qui offre aux lecteurs une véritable traversée des cultures ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
• Un résumé complet
• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que...
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Décryptez Les Échelles du Levant d'Amin Maalouf avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir des Échelles du Levant, le roman nécessaire sur la tolérance entre les hommes de la littérature contemporaine ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
• Un résumé complet
• Une présentation des personnages principaux...
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La nave di Teseo
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2020
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Italian
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Luglio 1096: fa molto caldo sotto le mura di Nicea. All'ombra dei fichi, nei giardini fioriti, circolano notizie inquietanti: una truppa formata da cavalieri, fanti, ma anche donne e bambini, marcia su Costantinopoli. Si dice che portino, cucite sulla spalla, delle croci in tessuto e che vengano a sterminare i musulmani fin dentro Gerusalemme. Resteranno due secoli in Terra Santa, saccheggiando e massacrando in nome del loro dio. Un'incursione barbara...
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One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago. Exiled in France, Adam has been leading a peaceful life as a respected historian, but back among the milk-white mountains of the East his past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life -...
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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. The United States is on the verge of losing all moral credibility. The European Union is in the process of breaking apart. The Arab world is embroiled in crisis. Thus divided and lacking solidarity, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment...
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A thoughtful and well-documented call to rethink the role of Arabs in the plan of God
Western Christianity's long-standing support of Israel has, perhaps unintentionally, nurtured a prejudice against Arab people-the descendants of Abraham's first son, Ishmael. Author Tony Maalouf contends that this bias differs dramatically from the biblical portrayal of Ishmael and the nations that have sprung from him.
With meticulous research and theological...
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On ne compte plus les catastrophes de toutes natures subies par le Liban et les Libanais depuis des décennies.
Cet essai, qui ambitionne d'apporter une vue d'ensemble de la situation libanaise, est motivé par l'explosion catastrophique du port de Beyrouth d'août 2020, restée à ce jour sans suite judiciaire ni politique.
La démarche suivie est avant tout citoyenne et libre. L'ouvrage n'hésite donc pas à dire les choses, de manière objective...
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Bernard Grasset
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[2019]
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French
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"Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d'Amin Maalouf : ses 1 intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience des grands bouleversements de l'Histoire. Il s'inquiétait il y a vingt ans de la montée des "identités meurtrières" ; il y a dix ans du "dérèglement du monde". Il nous explique aujourd'hui pourquoi toutes les aires de civilisation sont menacées de naufrage. Depuis plus d'un demi-siècle, l'auteur observe...
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In the Middle East, turmoil has spread quickly. Oppression, inequality, and violence have been keyed in to the very makeup of its society. But what causes a culture to emerge and prosper or stagnate and fail? How can the people take charge of their own inalienable rights to growth, freedom, and life-to keep from backsliding into the grasp of old, unhealthy ideologies and meet their need for ascendance? In Elza Maalouf's groundbreaking new book Emerge!...
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In this compilation of sonnets, poet, singer and songwriter Christine Maalouf Abi Najm explores themes like love, romance, and the emotions that come with them; personality archetypes such as orphans and dreamers; places including hometown and nature; and contemplations on healing, trust, love, hate, life, and death.
I dedicate this book to the soul of my father who died in war when I was three years old. To the spirit that I didn't have the chance...
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World Editions
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2023.
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"Alec, a press artist with an impressive track record, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago, before withdrawing from public life. That is, until a gigantic power failure cuts them off from the rest of the world, and all of a sudden they find themselves dependent on each other. The world appears to be on the brink of nuclear war and the collapse of...
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Interlink Books
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The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as a poet and gives him a blank book in which to inscribe his verses. Thus the head of a great poet is saved...
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