Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

Amin Maalouf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408815982 ISBN 13: 9781408815984

Publisher: Bloomsbury UK, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Maalouf, Amin

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About the Author

Amin Maalouf was born in Lebanon in 1949. A journalist and director of the daily newspaper An-Nahar, he lived in Beirut until the start of the civil war in 1975, when he left for Paris with his family. His life straddles East and West - he reads and writes in Arabic, but chooses to publish in French. He refuses to be limited to one identity, either Arab or French, but chooses actively to be both simultaneously. A novelist, essayist and memoirist, he has won prestigious prizes, including the Prix Goncourt for his novels and other books which have been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Paris. George Miller is the translator of No and Me. He is also a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique's English-language edition, and the translator of Conversations with my Gardener by Henri Cueco and Inside Al-Qaeda by Mohammed Sifaoui.

Review

Maalouf writes for a general rather than a specialist readership * Le Monde * Rarely has the tipping point between Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism after the Six Day War been explained so clearly. ... Maalouf is a Christian, but he wants to speak out in defence of Muslims; he is from the Middle East, but he still has great hope in Europe; he is Lebanese, but he is a great critic of group interests; he is a critic, yet he constantly voices his faith in humanity * L'Express *

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408815982
• ISBN 13: 9781408815984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256