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He has published ten novels, which have been translated into several foreign languages, as well as several works of literary criticism. Khoury published his first novel in 1975, an ilaqat aldaira. No one was, but uncle paolo did have a talk with aunt nenine, the laundress, about how. The museum of modern art has made modern art in the arab world.
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