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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.

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

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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.

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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 the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

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For me, soccer was a dance.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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