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• ‟ Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

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• ‟ In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.

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• ‟ In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.

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• ‟ My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

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• ‟ I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

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• ‟ As part of the ritual of becoming a man, my maternal uncle, a judge, and his four sons, each older than me, took me deer hunting.

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• ‟ When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

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• ‟ Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; books have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

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• ‟ Books have shown me horror and beauty.

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• ‟ I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

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