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“He spoke like an Arab, but he acted nothing like.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“He’d just crossed a great river. His entire country had no permanent rivers, just wadis that flooded briefly with a rare passing shower and…

— Tom Clancy

“Among Arabs he was a Berber, among Frenchmen an Arab, among his own a nothing, as I'd been a Jew among Arabs, an Egyptian…

— André Aciman

“Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with Irishy personalities.…

— Eoin Colfer

“No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some…

— Djuna Barnes

“Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned…

— Paul Bowles

“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow…

— Tim O'Brien

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run…

— Salman Rushdie

“I spent hours apart by myself, taking stock of where I stood, mentally, on this my thirtieth birthday. It came to me queerly how,…

— Anonymous

“As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesman to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave…

— J.I. Packer

“He’d been unique, a member of a vanishing race, a vanishing tribe, an individual in an ancient society. Now he was one of thousands…

— Diana Palmer

“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about him. If…

— Salman Rushdie