You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand wh — Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand wh — Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand wh — Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand wh — Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand wh — Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
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You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.

— Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
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