[Translated from Arabic into French by Rania Samara]
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Khaled Khalifa
Khaled KHALIFA (fiction writer, screenwriter; Syria) has written extensively for film and television and authored three novels, published in multiple editions in the Arab world: [The Guard of Deception] (1993), [The Gypsy Notebooks] (2000), and [In Praise of Hatred] (2006). His honors include a 2007 award from the Ismaiiliyah International Festival for Documentaries and a 2005 Award for Best Script for Bab al Maqam, from the Valencia Film Festival. Currently, he is working on his fourth novel, A Parallel Life.
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Today I will talk only about the novel and cut out any discussion of other forms, which I have trouble summarizing. I will put to you a question I frequently ask myself about fiction: What can the defenseless art do... media_text
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[Excerpt] Radwan recalled the child he had been sixty years ago, when at the age of five he learned that he was blind... media_text
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