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and I dare a little more as I grow older.”

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“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”

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by Michael | Jun 18, 2017

(LtR) My grandfather, Sheikh Amin, Principle; my father, Abdel Aziz...

by Michael | Jun 15, 2017

Madam Bovery: The classical translation by Francis Steegmuller and a current, livelier one by Lydia Davis....

by Michael | Jun 12, 2017

Kahlil Gibran—Man and Poet, A New Biography by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins (One World, 2005) Gibran, noted for...

by Michael | Jun 12, 2017

by Michael | May 22, 2017

Judas, by Amos Oz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), is an exquisite love story and one of his most powerful novels. (“The...

by Michael | May 11, 2017

The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogan (Basic Books) provides a vivid account as to the origins of the current turmoil in...