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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with...

For me, soccer was a dance.

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti...

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

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