I read his novel ‘Banquet for Seaweed’ a few years ago in Arabic. I do not think it is translated to English.
Author who shunned spotlight and for whom writing was truly its own reward
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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