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I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

~Hisham Matar

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Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

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I lost my father when I was 19, so the majority of my life has been under this cloud, and I have been full of the intention to find out what happened.

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I used to believe that it was not possible to lose someone I loved without sensing it somehow, without feeling something shift. But it's not true. People can die, sometimes the closest people to us, without us noticing a thing.

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I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

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I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

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My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

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My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent. People assumed I was Egyptian.

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My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to turn away a person in need. And it didn't matter what we thought of their motives, whether they were truly in need or not.

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I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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