Maalouf
Lebanese-born French novelist, essayist and journalist who writes in French; known for works on identity, history and cultural encounter, including The Rock of Tanios (Prix Goncourt, 1993) and The Crusades Through Arab Eyes; elected to the Académie française.
Books
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1. Les échelles Du Levant
A lyrical travel-memoir tracing journeys around the eastern Mediterranean, where the narrator interweaves personal memories, historical reflection and portraits of ports and their inhabitants to meditate on identity, exile, the encounters and ruptures between East and West, and the gradual fading of the Levant’s pluralistic, cosmopolitan worlds. Intimate anecdotes alternate with broader cultural and historical observation, evoking nostalgia for vanished milieus while probing questions of belonging and memory.